Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

A high-quality human reference panel reveals the complexity and distribution of genomic structural variants

  • Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa,
  • Tobias Marschall,
  • Wigard P. Kloosterman,
  • Laurent C. Francioli,
  • Jasmijn A. Baaijens,
  • Louis J. Dijkstra,
  • Abdel Abdellaoui,
  • Vyacheslav Koval,
  • Djie Tjwan Thung,
  • René Wardenaar,
  • Ivo Renkens,
  • Bradley P. Coe,
  • Patrick Deelen,
  • Joep de Ligt,
  • Eric-Wubbo Lameijer,
  • Freerk van Dijk,
  • Fereydoun Hormozdiari,
  • The Genome of the Netherlands Consortium,
  • André G. Uitterlinden,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn,
  • Evan E. Eichler,
  • Paul I. W. de Bakker,
  • Morris A. Swertz,
  • Cisca Wijmenga,
  • Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,
  • P. Eline Slagboom,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma,
  • Alexander Schönhuth,
  • Kai Ye,
  • Victor Guryev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12989
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Structural variants (SVs) are prevalent in genomes of the general population. Here, Guryev and The Genome of the Netherlands Consortium describe the reference panel of haplotype-resolved SVs from 769 individuals from 250 Dutch families and show its utility for studying heritable traits.