Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Rare copy number variants in over 100,000 European ancestry subjects reveal multiple disease associations

  • Yun Rose Li,
  • Joseph T. Glessner,
  • Bradley P. Coe,
  • Jin Li,
  • Maede Mohebnasab,
  • Xiao Chang,
  • John Connolly,
  • Charlly Kao,
  • Zhi Wei,
  • Jonathan Bradfield,
  • Cecilia Kim,
  • Cuiping Hou,
  • Munir Khan,
  • Frank Mentch,
  • Haijun Qiu,
  • Marina Bakay,
  • Christopher Cardinale,
  • Maria Lemma,
  • Debra Abrams,
  • Andrew Bridglall-Jhingoor,
  • Meckenzie Behr,
  • Shanell Harrison,
  • George Otieno,
  • Alexandria Thomas,
  • Fengxiang Wang,
  • Rosetta Chiavacci,
  • Lawrence Wu,
  • Dexter Hadley,
  • Elizabeth Goldmuntz,
  • Josephine Elia,
  • John Maris,
  • Robert Grundmeier,
  • Marcella Devoto,
  • Brendan Keating,
  • Michael March,
  • Renata Pellagrino,
  • Struan F. A. Grant,
  • Patrick M. A. Sleiman,
  • Mingyao Li,
  • Evan E. Eichler,
  • Hakon Hakonarson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13624-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Associations of copy number variations (CNVs) with complex traits are challenging to study because of their low frequency. Here, the authors analyse SNP array and array comparative genomic hybridization data of 100,028 individuals and report their associations with immune-related, cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric diseases as well as cancer.