Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Extensive disruption of protein interactions by genetic variants across the allele frequency spectrum in human populations

  • Robert Fragoza,
  • Jishnu Das,
  • Shayne D. Wierbowski,
  • Jin Liang,
  • Tina N. Tran,
  • Siqi Liang,
  • Juan F. Beltran,
  • Christen A. Rivera-Erick,
  • Kaixiong Ye,
  • Ting-Yi Wang,
  • Li Yao,
  • Matthew Mort,
  • Peter D. Stenson,
  • David N. Cooper,
  • Xiaomu Wei,
  • Alon Keinan,
  • John C. Schimenti,
  • Andrew G. Clark,
  • Haiyuan Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11959-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Low frequency coding single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) are predicted to disproportionately affect protein function. Here, the authors evaluate 2,009 missense SNVs across 2,185 protein-protein interactions using yeast two-hybrid and protein complementation assays and find that disruptive SNVs often occur in disease-associated genes.