Lucas D Ward

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Interpreting noncoding genetic variation in complex traits and human disease
    Lucas D Ward
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Nat Biotechnol 30:1095-106. 2012
  2. ncbi HaploReg: a resource for exploring chromatin states, conservation, and regulatory motif alterations within sets of genetically linked variants
    Lucas D Ward
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 40:D930-4. 2012
  3. ncbi Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions
    Lucas D Ward
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Science 337:1675-8. 2012
  4. ncbi A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals
    Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
    Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
    Nature 478:476-82. 2011
  5. ncbi Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types
    Jason Ernst
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
    Nature 473:43-9. 2011

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi Interpreting noncoding genetic variation in complex traits and human disease
    Lucas D Ward
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Nat Biotechnol 30:1095-106. 2012
    ..Ultimately, advances in regulatory and systems genomics can help unleash the value of whole-genome sequencing for personalized genomic risk assessment, diagnosis and treatment...
  2. ncbi HaploReg: a resource for exploring chromatin states, conservation, and regulatory motif alterations within sets of genetically linked variants
    Lucas D Ward
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 40:D930-4. 2012
    ..HaploReg will be useful to researchers developing mechanistic hypotheses of the impact of non-coding variants on clinical phenotypes and normal variation. The HaploReg database is available at http://compbio.mit.edu/HaploReg...
  3. ncbi Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions
    Lucas D Ward
    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Science 337:1675-8. 2012
    ..Our results suggest continued turnover in regulatory regions, with at least an additional 4% of the human genome subject to lineage-specific constraint...
  4. ncbi A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals
    Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
    Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
    Nature 478:476-82. 2011
    ..Overlap with disease-associated variants indicates that our findings will be relevant for studies of human biology, health and disease...
  5. ncbi Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types
    Jason Ernst
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
    Nature 473:43-9. 2011
    ..Our study presents a general framework for deciphering cis-regulatory connections and their roles in disease...