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An allelic-series rare-variant association test for candidate-gene discovery.
American journal of human genetics - 3 Aug 2023
McCaw Zachary R, O'Dushlaine Colm, Somineni Hari, Bereket Michael, Klein Christoph, Karaletsos Theofanis, Casale Francesco Paolo, Koller Daphne, Soare Thomas W
Abstract excerpt
Allelic series are of candidate therapeutic interest because of the existence of a dose-response relationship between the functionality of a gene and the degree or severity of a phenotype. We define an allelic series as a collection of variants in which increasingly deleterious mutations lead to increasingly large phenotypic effects, and we have developed a gene-based rare-variant association test specifically...
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