Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

TA Manolio, FS Collins, NJ Cox, DB Goldstein… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated
with complex human diseases and traits, and have provided valuable insights into their …

Consensus statement: chromosomal microarray is a first-tier clinical diagnostic test for individuals with developmental disabilities or congenital anomalies

DT Miller, MP Adam, S Aradhya, LG Biesecker… - The American Journal of …, 2010 - cell.com
Chromosomal microarray (CMA) is increasingly utilized for genetic testing of individuals with
unexplained developmental delay/intellectual disability (DD/ID), autism spectrum disorders …

Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes

MJP Chaisson, AD Sanders, X Zhao, A Malhotra… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The incomplete identification of structural variants (SVs) from whole-genome sequencing
data limits studies of human genetic diversity and disease association. Here, we apply a …

Genetic studies in intellectual disability and related disorders

LELM Vissers, C Gilissen, JA Veltman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Genetic factors play a major part in intellectual disability (ID), but genetic studies have been
complicated for a long time by the extreme clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Recently …

A copy number variation morbidity map of developmental delay

GM Cooper, BP Coe, S Girirajan, JA Rosenfeld… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
To understand the genetic heterogeneity underlying developmental delay, we compared
copy number variants (CNVs) in 15,767 children with intellectual disability and various …

BreakDancer: an algorithm for high-resolution map** of genomic structural variation

K Chen, JW Wallis, MD McLellan, DE Larson… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Detection and characterization of genomic structural variation are important for
understanding the landscape of genetic variation in human populations and in complex …

Structural variation in the human genome and its role in disease

P Stankiewicz, JR Lupski - Annual review of medicine, 2010 - annualreviews.org
During the last quarter of the twentieth century, our knowledge about human genetic
variation was limited mainly to the heterochromatin polymorphisms, large enough to be …

Copy number variation in human health, disease, and evolution

F Zhang, W Gu, ME Hurles… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Copy number variation (CNV) is a source of genetic diversity in humans. Numerous CNVs
are being identified with various genome analysis platforms, including array comparative …

Etiological heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorders: more than 100 genetic and genomic disorders and still counting

C Betancur - Brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
There is increasing evidence that autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) can arise from rare
highly penetrant mutations and genomic imbalances. The rare nature of these variants, and …

CNVs: harbingers of a rare variant revolution in psychiatric genetics

D Malhotra, J Sebat - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The genetic bases of neuropsychiatric disorders are beginning to yield to scientific inquiry.
Genome-wide studies of copy number variation (CNV) have given rise to a new …