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The use of inferred haplotypes in downstream analysesD Y Lin
Am J Hum Genet 80:577-9. 2007
Independent susceptibility markers for atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25Steven A Lubitz
Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02114, USA
Circulation 122:976-84. 2010..Genetic variants on chromosome 4q25 are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF). We sought to determine whether there is more than 1 susceptibility signal at this locus...
MaCH: using sequence and genotype data to estimate haplotypes and unobserved genotypesYun Li
Department of Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Genet Epidemiol 34:816-34. 2010..in each study, the effects of most common SNPs must be evaluated indirectly using either genotyped markers or haplotypes thereof as proxies...
DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism dataP Librado
Departament de Genetica, Facultat de Biologia and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Bioinformatics 25:1451-2. 2009..AVAILABILITY: Freely available to academic users from: (http://www.ub.edu/dnasp)...
Haploview: analysis and visualization of LD and haplotype mapsJ C Barrett
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Bioinformatics 21:263-5. 2005..AVAILABILITY: http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/haploview/ CONTACT: jcbarret@broad.mit.edu..
Prediction of total genetic value using genome-wide dense marker mapsT H Meuwissen
Research Institute of Animal Science and Health, 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands
Genetics 157:1819-29. 2001..Here we attempted to estimate the effects of approximately 50,000 marker haplotypes simultaneously from a limited number of phenotypic records...
The structure of haplotype blocks in the human genomeStacey B Gabriel
Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Science 296:2225-9. 2002..a powerful approach to disease gene mapping, based on the association between causal mutations and the ancestral haplotypes on which they arose...
Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variationMannis van Oven
Department of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hum Mutat 30:E386-94. 2009..This complete mtDNA tree includes previously published as well as newly identified haplogroups, is easily navigable, will be continuously and regularly updated in the future, and is online available at http://www.phylotree.org...
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populationsPardis C Sabeti
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Nature 449:913-8. 2007....
Genome-wide association scan in women with systemic lupus erythematosus identifies susceptibility variants in ITGAM, PXK, KIAA1542 and other lociJohn B Harley
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
Nat Genet 40:204-10. 2008..Our results show that numerous genes, some with known immune-related functions, predispose to SLE...
A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPsKelly A Frazer
The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road MEM275, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Nature 449:851-61. 2007..Finally, we demonstrate increased differentiation at non-synonymous, compared to synonymous, SNPs, resulting from systematic differences in the strength or efficacy of natural selection between populations...
A new statistical method for haplotype reconstruction from population dataM Stephens
Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Am J Hum Genet 68:978-89. 2001..b>Haplotypes can be obtained, at considerable cost, experimentally or (partially) through genotyping of additional family ..
Rapid and accurate haplotype phasing and missing-data inference for whole-genome association studies by use of localized haplotype clusteringSharon R Browning
Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Am J Hum Genet 81:1084-97. 2007..1 days of computing time, with 99% of masked alleles imputed correctly. Our method is implemented in the Beagle software package, which is freely available...
Methods for detecting associations with rare variants for common diseases: application to analysis of sequence dataBingshan Li
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Hum Genet 83:311-21. 2008..The CMC method can be applied to either candidate-gene or whole-genome sequence data...
A simple correction for multiple testing for single-nucleotide polymorphisms in linkage disequilibrium with each otherDale R Nyholt
Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Am J Hum Genet 74:765-9. 2004....
A composite of multiple signals distinguishes causal variants in regions of positive selectionSharon R Grossman
Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 327:883-6. 2010..CMS can not just identify individual loci but implicates precise variants selected by evolution...
Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseasesAugustine Kong
deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Nature 462:868-74. 2009..We identified a differentially methylated CTCF-binding site at 11p15 and demonstrated correlation of rs2334499 with decreased methylation of that site...
A unified approach to genotype imputation and haplotype-phase inference for large data sets of trios and unrelated individualsBrian L Browning
Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Am J Hum Genet 84:210-23. 2009..We present a useful measure of imputation accuracy, allelic R(2), and show that this measure can be estimated accurately from posterior genotype probabilities. Our methods are implemented in version 3.0 of the BEAGLE software package...
Runs of homozygosity in European populationsRuth McQuillan
Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
Am J Hum Genet 83:359-72. 2008....
Dissection of the genetics of Parkinson's disease identifies an additional association 5' of SNCA and multiple associated haplotypes at 17q21Chris C A Spencer
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
Hum Mol Genet 20:345-53. 2011..We found no support for the previously reported SNP association in 12q12/LRRK2. We also found an association of the two SNPs in 4q22/SNCA with the age of onset of the disease...
Distinctive Paleo-Indian migration routes from Beringia marked by two rare mtDNA haplogroupsUgo A Perego
Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Universita di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Curr Biol 19:1-8. 2009..In this study, we have instead identified and analyzed mtDNAs belonging to two rare Native American haplogroups named D4h3 and X2a...
SHEsis, a powerful software platform for analyses of linkage disequilibrium, haplotype construction, and genetic association at polymorphism lociYong Yong Shi
Bio-X Life Science Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Cell Res 15:97-8. 2005..The platform has been well evaluated by several sets of real data...
Neuregulin 1 and susceptibility to schizophreniaHreinn Stefansson
deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
Am J Hum Genet 71:877-92. 2002..We also demonstrate that the behavioral phenotypes of the NRG1 hypomorphs are partially reversible with clozapine, an atypical antipsychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia...
A cladistic analysis of phenotypic associations with haplotypes inferred from restriction endonuclease mapping and DNA sequence data. III. Cladogram estimationA R Templeton
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130
Genetics 132:619-33. 1992We previously developed a cladistic approach to identify subsets of haplotypes defined by restriction endonuclease mapping or DNA sequencing that are associated with significant phenotypic deviations...
mtDNA data indicate a single origin for dogs south of Yangtze River, less than 16,300 years ago, from numerous wolvesJun feng Pang
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Mol Biol Evol 26:2849-64. 2009..The mean sequence distance to ancestral haplotypes indicates an origin 5,400-16,300 years ago (ya) from at least 51 female wolf founders...
Integrated genotype calling and association analysis of SNPs, common copy number polymorphisms and rare CNVsJoshua M Korn
Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nat Genet 40:1253-60. 2008..The Birdsuite software is applied here to data from the Affymetrix SNP 6.0 array. Additionally, we describe a method, implemented in PLINK, to utilize these combined SNP and CNV genotypes for association testing with a phenotype...
Efficiency and power in genetic association studiesPaul I W de Bakker
Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 6818, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 2790, USA
Nat Genet 37:1217-23. 2005..Examining all observed haplotypes for association, rather than just those that are proxies for known SNPs, increases power to detect rare causal ..
Integrated detection and population-genetic analysis of SNPs and copy number variationSteven A McCarroll
Program in Medical and Population Genetics and Genetic Analysis Platform, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nat Genet 40:1166-74. 2008..Most common, diallelic CNPs were in strong linkage disequilibrium with SNPs, and most low-frequency CNVs segregated on specific SNP haplotypes.
Efficient mapping of mendelian traits in dogs through genome-wide associationElinor K Karlsson
Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nat Genet 39:1321-8. 2007..Complete sequencing of the white and solid haplotypes identifies candidate regulatory mutations in the melanocyte-specific promoter of MITF...
Genome-wide analysis of transcript isoform variation in humansTony Kwan
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, 740 Dr Penfield, Room 7210, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A4, Canada
Nat Genet 40:225-31. 2008..This extra layer of molecular diversity may account for natural phenotypic variation and disease susceptibility...
Accelerated species inventory on Madagascar using coalescent-based models of species delineationMichael T Monaghan
Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Syst Biol 58:298-311. 2009..Local endemism was pronounced in all 5 insect groups. Most species (60-91%) and haplotypes (88-99%) were found at only 1 of the 5 study sites (40-1000 km apart)...
The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysmAnna Helgadottir
deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, IS 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Nat Genet 40:217-24. 2008..These findings extend our insight into the role of the sequence variant tagged by rs10757278-G and show that it is not confined to atherosclerotic diseases...
Differential contributions of rare and common, coding and noncoding Ret mutations to multifactorial Hirschsprung disease liabilityEileen Sproat Emison
Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Hum Genet 87:60-74. 2010..The RET allelic series, and its genotype-phenotype correlations, shows that success in variant identification in complex disorders may strongly depend on which patients are studied...
A genome-wide association study identifies variants in the HLA-DP locus associated with chronic hepatitis B in AsiansYoichiro Kamatani
Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Nat Genet 41:591-5. 2009..34 x 10(-39) and 2.31 x 10(-38), OR = 0.57 and 0.56, respectively). Subsequent analyses revealed risk haplotypes (HLA-DPA1(*)0202-DPB1(*)0501 and HLA-DPA1(*)0202-DPB1(*)0301, OR = 1.45 and 2...
MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African AmericansW H Linda Kao
Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Nat Genet 40:1185-92. 2008....
A comparison of bayesian methods for haplotype reconstruction from population genotype dataMatthew Stephens
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 4322, USA
Am J Hum Genet 73:1162-9. 2003In this report, we compare and contrast three previously published Bayesian methods for inferring haplotypes from genotype data in a population sample...
A whole-genome association study of major determinants for host control of HIV-1Jacques Fellay
Center for Population Genomics and Pharmacogenetics, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Science 317:944-7. 2007..These findings emphasize the importance of studying human genetic variation as a guide to combating infectious agents...
Newly identified loci that influence lipid concentrations and risk of coronary artery diseaseCristen J Willer
Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1420 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Nat Genet 40:161-9. 2008..Notably, the 11 independent variants associated with increased LDL cholesterol concentrations in our study also showed increased frequency in a sample of coronary artery disease cases versus controls...
Relative impact of nucleotide and copy number variation on gene expression phenotypesBarbara E Stranger
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
Science 315:848-53. 2007..Interrogation of the genome for both types of variants may be an effective way to elucidate the causes of complex phenotypes and disease in humans...
Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domesticationBridgett M VonHoldt
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 621 Charles E Young Drive South, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Nature 464:898-902. 2010..Here we show that dog breeds share a higher proportion of multi-locus haplotypes unique to grey wolves from the Middle East, indicating that they are a dominant source of genetic diversity for ..
Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizardJason J Kolbe
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Nature 431:177-81. 2004..If these costs are to be mitigated, a greater understanding of the causes, progression and consequences of biological invasions is needed...
LIAN 3.0: detecting linkage disequilibrium in multilocus data. Linkage AnalysisB Haubold
Max Planck Institut für Chemische Okologie, Carl Zeiss Promenade 10, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Bioinformatics 16:847-8. 2000..LIAN incorporates both a Monte Carlo method as well as a novel algebraic method to carry out the hypothesis test. The program further returns the genetic diversity of the sample and the pairwise distances between its members...
A fast and flexible statistical model for large-scale population genotype data: applications to inferring missing genotypes and haplotypic phasePaul Scheet
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195 4322, USA
Am J Hum Genet 78:629-44. 2006..This model is based on the idea that, over short regions, haplotypes in a population tend to cluster into groups of similar haplotypes...
Colloquium paper: human adaptations to diet, subsistence, and ecoregion are due to subtle shifts in allele frequencyAngela M Hancock
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:8924-30. 2010....
Many species in one: DNA barcoding overestimates the number of species when nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes are coamplifiedHojun Song
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:13486-91. 2008....
Recombination and linkage disequilibrium in Arabidopsis thalianaSung Kim
Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Nat Genet 39:1151-5. 2007..LD also reflects the action of selection, and it is more extensive between nonsynonymous polymorphisms than between synonymous polymorphisms...
A new approach for using genome scans to detect recent positive selection in the human genomeKun Tang
Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS Biol 5:e171. 2007..Gene ontology analysis of the candidate regions revealed several new functional groups that might help explain some important interpopulation differences in phenotypic traits...
GAB2 alleles modify Alzheimer's risk in APOE epsilon4 carriersEric M Reiman
Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
Neuron 54:713-20. 2007..Our findings suggest that GAB2 modifies LOAD risk in APOE epsilon4 carriers and influences Alzheimer's neuropathology...
Genetic evidence for an East Asian origin of domestic dogsPeter Savolainen
Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Science 298:1610-3. 2002..A larger genetic variation in East Asia than in other regions and the pattern of phylogeographic variation suggest an East Asian origin for the domestic dog, approximately 15,000 years ago...
Classic selective sweeps were rare in recent human evolutionRyan D Hernandez
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Science 331:920-4. 2011..These findings indicate that classic sweeps were not a dominant mode of human adaptation over the past ~250,000 years...
Score tests for association between traits and haplotypes when linkage phase is ambiguousDaniel J Schaid
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Am J Hum Genet 70:425-34. 2002..the discovery of a gene related to a trait is the finding of an association between the trait and one or more haplotypes. Haplotype analyses can also provide critical information regarding the function of a gene; however, when ..
A "silent" polymorphism in the MDR1 gene changes substrate specificityChava Kimchi-Sarfaty
Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Science 315:525-8. 2007....
The role of geography in human adaptationGraham Coop
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
PLoS Genet 5:e1000500. 2009..These patterns suggest that selection is often weak enough that neutral processes -- especially population history, migration, and drift -- exert powerful influences over the fate and geographic distribution of selected alleles...
Clinical expression of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy is affected by the mitochondrial DNA-haplogroup backgroundGavin Hudson
Mitochondrial Research Group, Department of Ophthalmology and Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Am J Hum Genet 81:228-33. 2007..Substitutions on MTCYB provide an explanation for these findings, which demonstrate that common genetic variants have a marked effect on the expression of an ostensibly monogenic mtDNA disorder...
Runs of homozygosity reveal highly penetrant recessive loci in schizophreniaTodd Lencz
Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75 59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:19942-7. 2007..Properties of common ROHs in healthy subjects, including chromosomal location and presence of nonancestral haplotypes, converged with prior reports identifying regions under selective pressure...
Fine definition of the pedigree haplotypes of closely related rice cultivars by means of genome-wide discovery of single-nucleotide polymorphismsToshio Yamamoto
QTL Genomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
BMC Genomics 11:267. 2010..Finally, we applied this array to analyze historical representative rice cultivars to understand the dynamics of their genome composition...
Positive natural selection in the human lineageP C Sabeti
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
Science 312:1614-20. 2006....
EMPOP--a forensic mtDNA databaseWalther Parson
Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University Müllerstreet 44, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Forensic Sci Int Genet 1:88-92. 2007..EMPOP has been launched on 16 October 2006 and is since then available at http://www.empop.org...
Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structurePardis C Sabeti
Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nature 419:832-7. 2002..we introduce a framework for detecting the genetic imprint of recent positive selection by analysing long-range haplotypes in human populations. We first identify haplotypes at a locus of interest (core haplotypes)...
Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups M7b1'2 and M8a affect clinical expression of leber hereditary optic neuropathy in Chinese families with the m.11778G-->a mutationYanli Ji
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Am J Hum Genet 83:760-8. 2008..These findings will assist in further understanding the pathogenesis of LHON and guide future genetic counseling in East Asian patients with m.11778G-->A...
Whole-genome molecular haplotyping of single cellsH Christina Fan
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Nat Biotechnol 29:51-7. 2011..SNP) array analysis of amplified DNA enabled us to achieve completely deterministic, whole-genome, personal haplotypes of four individuals, including a HapMap trio with European ancestry (CEU) and an unrelated European individual...
Plasmodium knowlesi: reservoir hosts and tracking the emergence in humans and macaquesKim Sung Lee
Malaria Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
PLoS Pathog 7:e1002015. 2011..knowlesi csp gene and certain mtDNA haplotypes were shared between both hosts...
Collaborative analysis of alpha-synuclein gene promoter variability and Parkinson diseaseDemetrius M Maraganore
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn 55905, USA
JAMA 296:661-70. 2006..Alpha-synuclein (SNCA) has been one of the most promising susceptibility genes, but large-scale studies have been lacking...
High-throughput sequencing of complete human mtDNA genomes from the PhilippinesEllen D Gunnarsdóttir
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Genome Res 21:1-11. 2011..Our results clearly demonstrate that the high-throughput sequencing platforms are the methodology of choice for generating complete mtDNA genome sequences...
Japanese population structure, based on SNP genotypes from 7003 individuals compared to other ethnic groups: effects on population-based association studiesYumi Yamaguchi-Kabata
Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Genomic Medicine, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, 4 6 1 Shirokane dai, Minato ku, Tokyo 108 8639, Japan
Am J Hum Genet 83:445-56. 2008..Simulation studies showed that the inclusion of different proportions of individuals from different regions of Japan in case and control groups can lead to an inflated rate of false-positive results when the sample sizes are large...
Maize inbreds exhibit high levels of copy number variation (CNV) and presence/absence variation (PAV) in genome contentNathan M Springer
Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
PLoS Genet 5:e1000734. 2009..Haplotype-specific PAVs contain hundreds of single-copy, expressed genes that may contribute to heterosis and to the extraordinary phenotypic diversity of this important crop...
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II alleles, haplotypes and epitopes which confer susceptibility or protection in systemic sclerosis: analyses in 1300 Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic cases and 1000 controlsFrank C Arnett
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston UTHSC H, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB 5 270, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 69:822-7. 2010To determine human leucocyte antigen-class II (HLA-class II) (DRB1, DQB1, DQA1 and DPB1) alleles, haplotypes and shared epitopes associated with scleroderma (systemic sclerosis (SSc)) and its subphenotypes in a large multi-ethnic US ..
Paternal genetic affinity between Western Austronesians and Daic populationsHui Li
MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes for Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
BMC Evol Biol 8:146. 2008....
Updating phylogeny of mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup m in India: dispersal of modern human in South Asian corridorAdimoolam Chandrasekar
Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Bogadi, Mysore, India
PLoS ONE 4:e7447. 2009..Northeast Indian mtDNA pool harbors region specific lineages, other Indian lineages and East Asian lineages. We also suggest the establishment of an East Asian gene in North East India through admixture rather than replacement...
The HLA DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602-DPB1*0501 haplotype is a risk factor for toluene diisocyanate-induced occupational asthmaJeong Hee Choi
Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University, Anyang, Korea
Int Arch Allergy Immunol 150:156-63. 2009....
A major Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b Holocene era founder effect in Central and Western EuropeNatalie M Myres
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Eur J Hum Genet 19:95-101. 2011....
Forensic and phylogeographic characterization of mtDNA lineages from northern Thailand (Chiang Mai)Bettina Zimmermann
Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Mullerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria
Int J Legal Med 123:495-501. 2009..This necessitates establishing regional databases, especially for forensic applications. The population data have been submitted to the EMPOP database (www.empop.org) and will be available on publication...
SNAP: Combine and Map modules for multilocus population genetic analysisDavid L Aylor
Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Bioinformatics 22:1399-401. 2006..SNAP Map collapses DNA sequence data into unique haplotypes, extracts variable sites and manipulates output into multiple formats for input into existing software packages ..
The APOA5 locus is a strong determinant of plasma triglyceride concentrations across ethnic groups in SingaporeChao Qiang Lai
Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
J Lipid Res 44:2365-73. 2003..These data suggest that APOA5 plays a role in the ethnic differences observed for plasma TG and HDL cholesterol concentrations...
A splice site mutation in CRYBA1/A3 causing autosomal dominant posterior polar cataract in a Chinese pedigreeZhensheng Gu
Department of Ophthalmology, Xinhua Hospital, Medical College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Mol Vis 16:154-60. 2010..To identify the mutant gene for autosomal dominant posterior polar congenital cataract in a four-generation Chinese pedigree...
A common sex-dependent mutation in a RET enhancer underlies Hirschsprung disease riskEileen Sproat Emison
McKusick Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Nature 434:857-63. 2005..Thus, common low-penetrance variants, identified by association studies, can underlie both common and rare diseases...
Genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility locus for lung cancer at 15q25.1Christopher I Amos
Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Nat Genet 40:616-22. 2008..Haplotype analysis was consistent with there being a single risk variant in this region. We conclude that variation in a region of 15q25.1 containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors genes contributes to lung cancer risk...
A single IGF1 allele is a major determinant of small size in dogsNathan B Sutter
National Human Genome Research Institute, Building 50, Room 5349, 50 South Drive MSC 8000, Bethesda, MD 20892 8000, USA
Science 316:112-5. 2007..A single IGF1 single-nucleotide polymorphism haplotype is common to all small breeds and nearly absent from giant breeds, suggesting that the same causal sequence variant is a major contributor to body size in all small dogs...
Extended haplotypes in the complement factor H (CFH) and CFH-related (CFHR) family of genes protect against age-related macular degeneration: characterization, ethnic distribution and evolutionary implicationsGregory S Hageman
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Cell Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory, The University of Iowa, 11190E PFP, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52240, USA
Ann Med 38:592-604. 2006..Aims and Methods. In this study, the structural and evolutionary relationships between these genes and AMD was refined using a combined genetic, molecular and immunohistochemical approach...
The mosaic of KIR haplotypes in rhesus macaquesJeroen H Blokhuis
Department of Comparative Genetics and Refinement, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Lange Kleiweg 139, 2288GJ, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Immunogenetics 62:295-306. 2010..On the basis of this approach, 14 diverse KIR haplotypes have been described...
Multilocus haplotypes reveal variable levels of diversity and population structure of Plasmodium falciparum in Papua New Guinea, a region of intense perennial transmissionLee Schultz
Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Malar J 9:336. 2010..falciparum in the region. This study describes the population genetics of P. falciparum in thirteen villages spread over four distinct catchment areas of Papua New Guinea...
House mouse colonization patterns on the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Archipelago suggest singular primary invasions and resilience against re-invasionEmilie A Hardouin
Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany
BMC Evol Biol 10:325. 2010..We have focused here on the Kerguelen Archipelago, located within the sub-Antarctic area and compare the patterns with samples from other Southern Ocean islands...
Hierarchical fine mapping of the cystic fibrosis modifier locus on 19q13 identifies an association with two elements near the genes CEACAM3 and CEACAM6Frauke Stanke
Department of Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Hum Genet 127:383-94. 2010....
Extensive DRB region diversity in cynomolgus macaques: recombination as a driving forceGaby G M Doxiadis
Department of Comparative Genetics and Refinement, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, P O Box 3306, 2280 GH, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
Immunogenetics 62:137-47. 2010..propagated by a retroviral element mapping within DRB6 pseudogenes, which are present on the majority of haplotypes. This undocumented high level of DRB region configuration-associated diversity most likely represents a species-..
Characterization of rhesus macaque KIR genotypes and haplotypesPhilip H Kruse
Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Gottingen, Germany
Immunogenetics 62:281-93. 2010..of KIR genes and of two polymorphic microsatellite markers allowed the identification of 21 distinct KIR haplotypes in these families, with five to 11 segregating KIR genes per haplotype...
Genome-wide association study identifies new HLA class II haplotypes strongly protective against narcolepsyHyun Hor
Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Nat Genet 42:786-9. 2010..Cases almost never carried a trans DRB1*1301-DQB1*0603 haplotype (odds ratio = 0.02; P < 6 x 10(-14)). This unexpected protective HLA haplotype suggests a virtually causal involvement of the HLA region in narcolepsy susceptibility...
Internal diversification of mitochondrial haplogroup R0a reveals post-last glacial maximum demographic expansions in South ArabiaViktor Cerny
Archaeogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, The Czech Republic
Mol Biol Evol 28:71-8. 2011..Estimates of time to the most recent common ancestor of these lineages match the earliest archaeological evidence for seafaring activity in the peninsula in the sixth millennium BC...
Major east-west division underlies Y chromosome stratification across IndonesiaTatiana M Karafet
ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Mol Biol Evol 27:1833-44. 2010....
Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup distribution in Chaoshanese with and without myopiaQin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Mol Vis 16:303-9. 2010..The objective of this study is to investigate whether an mtDNA background is associated with myopia...
Polymorphisms and haplotypes in TLR9 and MYD88 are associated with the development of Hodgkin's lymphoma: a candidate-gene association studyVassiliki Mollaki
Genetics and Gene Therapy Division, BRFAA, Athens, Greece
J Hum Genet 54:655-9. 2009..The impact of haplotypes was also examined...
Patterns of East Asian pig domestication, migration, and turnover revealed by modern and ancient DNAGreger Larson
State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:7686-91. 2010..The overall findings provide the most complete picture yet of pig evolution and domestication in East Asia, and generate testable hypotheses regarding the development and spread of early farmers in the Far East...
New population and phylogenetic features of the internal variation within mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup R0Vanesa Alvarez-Iglesias
Unidade de Xenetica, Instituto de Medicina Legal and Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica y Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
PLoS ONE 4:e5112. 2009..R0 sub-lineages are badly defined in the control region and therefore, the analysis of diagnostic coding region polymorphisms is needed in order to gain resolution in population and medical studies...
Y chromosome diversity, human expansion, drift, and cultural evolutionJacques Chiaroni
Unité Mixte de Recherche 6578, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and Etablissement Français du Sang, Biocultural Anthropology, Medical Faculty, Université de Méditerranée, 13916 Marseille, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:20174-9. 2009....
Interactions of the apolipoprotein A5 gene polymorphisms and alcohol consumption on serum lipid levelsRui xing Yin
Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, People s Republic of China
PLoS ONE 6:e17954. 2011..The present study was undertaken to detect the interactions of ApoA5-1131T>C, c.553G>T and c.457G>A polymorphisms and alcohol consumption on serum lipid levels...
Association between catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) haplotypes and severity of hyperactivity symptoms in adultsH Halleland
Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:403-10. 2009..2006); Science 314(5807):1930-1933]. We therefore hypothesized that analysis of haplotypes could reveal more about the association between COMT and ADHD symptoms than the Val158Met polymorphism alone...
Eurasian and Sub-Saharan African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup influences pseudoexfoliation glaucoma development in Saudi patientsKhaled K Abu-Amero
Ophthalmic Genetics Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mol Vis 17:543-7. 2011..To investigate whether different mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups have a role on the development of pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEG) in the Saudi Arab population...
Mutation analysis of 272 Spanish families affected by autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa using a genotyping microarrayAlmudena Avila-Fernandez
Genetics Department, IIS Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain
Mol Vis 16:2550-8. 2010..Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by progressive loss of vision. The aim of this study was to identify the causative mutations in 272 Spanish families using a genotyping microarray...
A Chinese family with progressive childhood cataracts and IVS3+1G>A CRYBA3/A1 mutationsYanan Zhu
Eye Center of the 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Medical College of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Mol Vis 16:2347-53. 2010..To characterize the disease-causing mutations in a Chinese family with progressive childhood cataracts...
Interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) and fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) contribute to human tooth agenesisAlexandre R Vieira
Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Med Genet A 143:538-45. 2007..014) and IRF6 (P = 0.002) markers. There were statistically significant data suggesting that IRF6 interacts not only with MSX1 (P = 0.001), but also with TGFA (P = 0.03)...
Genetic variation at the calcium-sensing receptor (CASR) locus: implications for clinical molecular diagnosticsFrancisco H J Yun
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Clin Biochem 40:551-61. 2007..Knowledge of SNP frequency and haplotype structure is essential in understanding molecular test results...
No association found between the promoter variants of ADRA1A and schizophrenia in the Chinese populationKe Huang
Bio X Life Science Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200030, PR China
J Psychiatr Res 42:384-8. 2008..These results suggest that the variants among the promoter of ADRA1A gene are unlikely to play a major role in the susceptibility to schizophrenia in the Chinese population...
Research Grants
- Non-Human Primate Model of Gluten-Sensitive EnteropathyKarol Sestak; Fiscal Year: 2009..Furthermore, we identified 2 DRB haplotypes and/or 4 DQ allelic pairs as candidate MHC II genes for immunogenetic association with gluten sensitivity in ..
- Non-Human Primate Model of Gluten-Sensitive EnteropathyKarol Sestak; Fiscal Year: 2010..Furthermore, we identified 2 DRB haplotypes and/or 4 DQ allelic pairs as candidate MHC II genes for immunogenetic association with gluten sensitivity in ..
- Pharmacogenetics and Cardiovascular EventsBruce Psaty; Fiscal Year: 2006..is to assess interactions between selected cardiovascular medications and the major candidate-gene variants or haplotypes on the incidence of MI, stroke and AF...
- Role of HLA class II genes in demyelinationChella S David; Fiscal Year: 2010..Among all the genetic factors associated with MS susceptibility, HLA-class II haplotypes such as DR2/DQ6, DR3/DQ2, DR4/DQ8, show the strongest association...
- Molecular Epidemiology of DNA Repair in Head and Neck CancerQingyi Wei; Fiscal Year: 2010..e., ERCC1, XPA, XPB, XPC, XPD, XPE, XPF, and XPG), to correlate the variant alleles/genotypes or haplotypes/diplotypes with three NER phenotypes (i.e...
- EMBRYO LETHAL GENES IN THE MHC AND T/T COMPLEXESKaren Artzt; Fiscal Year: 2001..The tct mutation is common to all t haplotypes (which is a variant form of chromosome 17 consisting of multiple inversions spanning 15-20 centiMorgans of the ..
- Genetic and Immunological Impact of the HRES-1/Rab4 Locus in SLEAndras Perl; Fiscal Year: 2010..and cloned the HRES-1 human endogenous retrovirus, mapped it to chromosome 1 at q42, newly identified six haplotypes in the long terminal repeat (LTR), and revealed an association of polymorphic HindIII653C-containing alleles ..
- ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASERaghu Kalluri; Fiscal Year: 2001..that cross react with human Goodpasture autoantibodies, only a select few major histocompatibility complex haplotypes (MHC) developed inflammatory disease in organ tissues...
- SEQUENCE AND POLYMORPHISM OF RHESUS MACAQUE MHCDaniel Geraghty; Fiscal Year: 2006..indirect evidence exists that there may be as many as 3 class I B loci and 2 class I A loci on certain macaque haplotypes, but this has not been confirmed through direct genomic analysis...
- Insulin Clearance: Candidate and Positional Genetic DeterminantsMARK GOODARZI; Fiscal Year: 2009..Insulin clearance is a highly heritable trait. Preliminary data show that haplotypes in the genes for adenosine monophosphate deaminase (AMPD1 and AMPD2) and the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) ..
- Insulin Clearance: Candidate and Positional Genetic DeterminantsMARK GOODARZI; Fiscal Year: 2010..Insulin clearance is a highly heritable trait. Preliminary data show that haplotypes in the genes for adenosine monophosphate deaminase (AMPD1 and AMPD2) and the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) ..
- Insulin Clearance: Candidate and Positional Genetic DeterminantsMARK GOODARZI; Fiscal Year: 2011..Insulin clearance is a highly heritable trait. Preliminary data show that haplotypes in the genes for adenosine monophosphate deaminase (AMPD1 and AMPD2) and the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) ..
- IMMUNOGENETICS OF COLLAGEN INDUCED ARTHRITISChella David; Fiscal Year: 2000..By generating additional transgenic mice expressing HLA-DQ genes from RA linked and RA non-linked haplotypes, we will conform a role for DQ polymorphism in the predisposition to the disease...
- Genotypes, Haplotypes, and Blood Pressure Change from Childhood to AdulthoodDAVID MICHAEL HALLMAN; Fiscal Year: 2010..We propose to investigate 3072 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), both individually and as multilocus haplotypes (combinations of SNP alleles on a single chromosome), in 115 genes known or strongly suspected to affect blood ..
- Genotypes, Haplotypes, and Blood Pressure Change from Childhood to AdulthoodDAVID HALLMAN; Fiscal Year: 2009..We propose to investigate 3072 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), both individually and as multilocus haplotypes (combinations of SNP alleles on a single chromosome), in 115 genes known or strongly suspected to affect blood ..
- IMMUNOGENETICS OF COLLAGEN INDUCED ARTHRITIS IN MICEChella David; Fiscal Year: 2005..Predisposition to RA has been linked to the MHC class II genes with haplotypes HLA-DQ8/DR4 showing the highest relative risk, and DQ6/DR2 being resistant...
- Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Variation and Cardiovascular Control in HumansJohn H Eisenach; Fiscal Year: 2010..in combination, whereas the need exists to examine the functional relevance of the three, most common haplotypes in an ethnically homogenous cohort, thus controlling for variation in SNP's and race/ethnicity...
- Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Variation and Cardiovascular Control in HumansJohn Eisenach; Fiscal Year: 2009..in combination, whereas the need exists to examine the functional relevance of the three, most common haplotypes in an ethnically homogenous cohort, thus controlling for variation in SNP's and race/ethnicity...
- Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Variation and Cardiovascular Control in HumansJohn Eisenach; Fiscal Year: 2009..in combination, whereas the need exists to examine the functional relevance of the three, most common haplotypes in an ethnically homogenous cohort, thus controlling for variation in SNP's and race/ethnicity...
- Determinants of HbF Response to HydroxyureaMartin Steinberg; Fiscal Year: 2005..will use high throughput screening by mass spectrometry to: discover single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and haplotypes that predict the HbF level in sickle cell anemia patients taking hydroxyurea and discover SNPs and haplotypes ..
- Variation in Ara-C Pathway Genes and Treatment Outcomes in AMLRakesh Goyal; Fiscal Year: 2007..and assess the impact of this variation on gene expression in vitro and in vivo; 2) to determine if specific haplotypes in patient ENT1, DCK, NT5C2 and CDA genes predict overall survival in children and adolescents undergoing ..
