Estimating the selective effects of heterozygous protein-truncating variants from human exome data

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BiologyGeneticsGeneExomeLoss functionMendelian inheritanceNegative selectionExome sequencingSelection (genetic algorithm)GenomeComputational biologyPhenotype

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Year: 2017
Type: article
Volume: 49
Issue: 5
Pages: 806-810
Citations: 190
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                                    Christopher A. Cassa, 
                                
                                    Donate Weghorn, 
                                
                                    Daniel J. Balick
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2017). 
                            Estimating the selective effects of heterozygous protein-truncating variants from human exome data. 
                            Nature Genetics
                            , 49
                            (5)
                            , 806-810.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3831
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/ng.3831