A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

作者：MacArthur, Daniel G.; Balasubramanian, Suganthi; Frankish, Adam; Huang, Ni; Morris, James; Walter, Klaudia; Jostins, Luke; Habegger, Lukas; Pickrell, Joseph K.; Montgomery, Stephen B.; Albers, Cornelis A.; Zhang, Zhengdong D.; Conrad, Donald F.; Lunter, Gerton; Zheng, Hancheng; Ayub, Qasim; DePristo, Mark A.; Banks, Eric; Hu, Min; Handsaker, Robert E.; Rosenfeld, Jeffrey A.; Fromer, Menachem; Jin, Mike; Mu, Xinmeng Jasmine; Khurana, Ekta; Ye, Kai; Kay, Mike; Saunders, Gary Ian

来源：Science, 2012, 335(6070): 823-828.

DOI：10.1126/science.1215040

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Genome-sequencing studies indicate that all humans carry many genetic variants predicted to cause loss of LoF) of protein-coding genes, suggesting unexpected redundancy in the human genome. Here we apply stringent filters to 2951 putative LoF variants obtained from 185 human genomes to determine their true prevalence and properties. We estimate that human genomes typically contain similar to 100 genuine LoF variants with similar to 20 genes completely inactivated. We identify rare and likely deleterious LoF alleles, including 26 known and 21 predicted severe disease-causing variants, as well as common LoF variants in nonessential genes. We describe functional and evolutionary differences between LoF-tolerant and recessive disease genes and a method for using these differences to prioritize candidate genes found in clinical sequencing studies.

• 出版日期2012-2-17
• 单位河北医科大学; 深圳华大生命科学研究院