Publications
Mapping and characterization of structural variation in 17,795 human genomes. Nature 583, 83-89 (2020).
A variant-centric perspective on geographic patterns of human allele frequency variation. Elife 9, (2020).
Genetic variants in components of the NALCN-UNC80-UNC79 ion channel complex cause a broad clinical phenotype (NALCN channelopathies). Hum Genet 137, 753-768 (2018).
Variants in EXOSC9 Disrupt the RNA Exosome and Result in Cerebellar Atrophy with Spinal Motor Neuronopathy. Am J Hum Genet 102, 858-873 (2018).
Identification of genetic variants in CFAP221 as a cause of primary ciliary dyskinesia. J Hum Genet 65, 175-180 (2020).
Copy Number Changes Identified Using Whole Exome Sequencing in Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and Palate in a Honduran Population. Birth Defects Res 109, 1257-1267 (2017).
Mechanisms underlying structural variant formation in genomic disorders. Nat Rev Genet 17, 224-38 (2016).
RNF213 rare variants in an ethnically diverse population with Moyamoya disease. Stroke 45, 3200-7 (2014).
Beyond the tubule: pathological variants of , encoding the megalin receptor, result in glomerular loss and early progressive chronic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 319, F988-F999 (2020).
Truncating Variants in NAA15 Are Associated with Variable Levels of Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Congenital Anomalies. Am J Hum Genet 102, 985-994 (2018).
A fast and noise-resilient approach to detect rare-variant associations with deep sequencing data for complex disorders. Genet Epidemiol 36, 675-85 (2012).
FARVATX: Family-Based Rare Variant Association Test for X-Linked Genes. Genet Epidemiol 40, 475-85 (2016).
Rare variants in RTEL1 are associated with familial interstitial pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 191, 646-55 (2015).
Exome sequencing reveals a novel variant in causing intracranial aneurysm in a Chinese family. J Neurointerv Surg 12, 221-226 (2020).
Exome sequencing reveals pathogenic mutations in 91 strains of mice with Mendelian disorders. Genome Res 25, 948-57 (2015).
Transcriptomic signatures across human tissues identify functional rare genetic variation. Science 369, (2020).
Identification of Intellectual Disability Genes in Female Patients with a Skewed X-Inactivation Pattern. Hum Mutat 37, 804-11 (2016).
Exome Sequence Analysis Suggests that Genetic Burden Contributes to Phenotypic Variability and Complex Neuropathy. Cell Rep 12, 1169-83 (2015).
SVachra: a tool to identify genomic structural variation in mate pair sequencing data containing inward and outward facing reads. BMC Genomics 18, 691 (2017).
Monoallelic and Biallelic Variants in EMC1 Identified in Individuals with Global Developmental Delay, Hypotonia, Scoliosis, and Cerebellar Atrophy. Am J Hum Genet 98, 562-570 (2016).
Rare-variant extensions of the transmission disequilibrium test: application to autism exome sequence data. Am J Hum Genet 94, 33-46 (2014).
A visual and curatorial approach to clinical variant prioritization and disease gene discovery in genome-wide diagnostics. Genome Med 8, 13 (2016).
Detection of variants in dystroglycanopathy-associated genes through the application of targeted whole-exome sequencing analysis to a large cohort of patients with unexplained limb-girdle muscle weakness. Skelet Muscle 8, 23 (2018).
Identification of GAA variants through whole exome sequencing targeted to a cohort of 606 patients with unexplained limb-girdle muscle weakness. Orphanet J Rare Dis 12, 173 (2017).
Effect of catechol-o-methyltransferase-gene (COMT) variants on experimental and acute postoperative pain in 1,000 women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Anesthesiology 119, 1422-33 (2013).
Genes that Affect Brain Structure and Function Identified by Rare Variant Analyses of Mendelian Neurologic Disease. Neuron 88, 499-513 (2015).
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans. Nature 581, 434-443 (2020).
Genetic and non-genetic factors affecting the expression of COVID-19-relevant genes in the large airway epithelium. Genome Med 13, 66 (2021).
Monoallelic and biallelic CREB3L1 variant causes mild and severe osteogenesis imperfecta, respectively. Genet Med 20, 411-419 (2018).
A genome-wide case-only test for the detection of digenic inheritance in human exomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117, 19367-19375 (2020).
A general framework for estimating the relative pathogenicity of human genetic variants. Nat Genet 46, 310-5 (2014).
Rare Genetic Variants in PARN Are Associated with Pulmonary Fibrosis in Families. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 196, 1481-1484 (2017).
Localized structural frustration for evaluating the impact of sequence variants. Nucleic Acids Res 44, 10062-10073 (2016).
SimRare: a program to generate and analyze sequence-based data for association studies of quantitative and qualitative traits. Bioinformatics 28, 2703-4 (2012).
SEQCHIP: a powerful method to integrate sequence and genotype data for the detection of rare variant associations. Bioinformatics 28, 1745-51 (2012).
A unified method for detecting secondary trait associations with rare variants: application to sequence data. PLoS Genet 8, e1003075 (2012).
De novo EIF2AK1 and EIF2AK2 Variants Are Associated with Developmental Delay, Leukoencephalopathy, and Neurologic Decompensation. Am J Hum Genet 106, 570-583 (2020).
Next generation analytic tools for large scale genetic epidemiology studies of complex diseases. Genet Epidemiol 36, 22-35 (2012).
Multiplexed Functional Assessment of Genetic Variants in CARD11. Am J Hum Genet 107, 1029-1043 (2020).
MED27 Variants Cause Developmental Delay, Dystonia, and Cerebellar Hypoplasia. Ann Neurol 89, 828-833 (2021).