Genetic identification of a common collagen disease in Puerto Ricans via identity-by-descent mapping in a health system

Genetic identification of a common collagen disease in Puerto Ricans via identity-by-descent mapping in a health system

Achieving confidence in the causality of a disease locus is a complex task that often requires supporting data from both statistical genetics and clinical genomics. Here we describe a combined approach to identify and characterize a genetic disorder that leverages distantly related patients in a hea...

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Main Authors: Gillian Morven Belbin, Jacqueline Odgis, Elena P Sorokin, Muh-Ching Yee, Sumita Kohli, Benjamin S Glicksberg, Christopher R Gignoux, Genevieve L Wojcik, Tielman Van Vleck, Janina M Jeff, Michael Linderman, Claudia Schurmann, Douglas Ruderfer, Xiaoqiang Cai, Amanda Merkelson, Anne E Justice, Kristin L Young, Misa Graff, Kari E North, Ulrike Peters, Regina James, Lucia Hindorff, Ruth Kornreich, Lisa Edelmann, Omri Gottesman, Eli EA Stahl, Judy H Cho, Ruth JF Loos, Erwin P Bottinger, Girish N Nadkarni, Noura S Abul-Husn, Eimear E Kenny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2017-09-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
GWAS
medical genetics
population genetics
Electronic Health Records
collagen disorder
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/25060

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