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Analysis Of Structural Variation And Mtdna Copy Number In Finns, Liron Ganel May 2021

Analysis Of Structural Variation And Mtdna Copy Number In Finns, Liron Ganel

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a complex disease responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause according to the World Health Organization. Genetic association studies for CVD and related risk factors have successfully identified hundreds of loci associated with these complex diseases and traits, although much of their heritability remains unexplained. Structural variants (SVs) - including insertions, deletions, duplications, and inversions - are an understudied class of genomic variation that have the potential to explain much of the missing heritability of CVD and other complex traits. Here, we discuss advances emerging from the study of SVs in the context of …


A Tail Of Two Pancancer Projects: Somatic Variant Identification And Driver Gene Discovery Using Tcga, Matthew Hawkins Bailey Dec 2018

A Tail Of Two Pancancer Projects: Somatic Variant Identification And Driver Gene Discovery Using Tcga, Matthew Hawkins Bailey

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The implementation of next-generation genomic sequencing has exploded over the past dozen years. Large consortia, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA); the International Cancer Genetics Consortium (ICGC); and the Pediatric Cancer Genome Projects (PCGP), made great strides in democratizing big data for the scientific community. These data sets provide a rich resource to build tools for somatic variant discovery and exploratory analysis. Public repositories hold the answer to many novel biological and clinical revelations i.e., the discovery of complex indels, splice creating mutations, alternative super enhancer binding sites, machine learning models to predict mutation impact, and cancer subtype classification …