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Sixto Leal

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Evolution and functional impact of rare coding variation from deep sequencing of human exomes

…, R Do, X Liu, G Jun, HM Kang, D Jordan, SM Leal… - science, 2012 - science.org
As a first step toward understanding how rare variants contribute to risk for complex diseases,
we sequenced 15,585 human protein-coding genes to an average median depth of 111× …

Missing heritability and strategies for finding the underlying causes of complex disease

EE Eichler, J Flint, G Gibson, A Kong, SM Leal… - Nature reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
Although recent genome-wide studies have provided valuable insights into the genetic basis
of human disease, they have explained relatively little of the heritability of most complex …

[PDF][PDF] Methods for detecting associations with rare variants for common diseases: application to analysis of sequence data

B Li, SM Leal - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2008 - cell.com
Although whole-genome association studies using tagSNPs are a powerful approach for
detecting common variants, they are underpowered for detecting associations with rare variants…

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for investigating causality of sequence variants in human disease

…, MB Gerstein, DB Goldstein, JN Hirschhorn, SM Leal… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The discovery of rare genetic variants is accelerating, and clear guidelines for distinguishing
disease-causing sequence variants from the many potentially functional variants present in …

Single-nucleotide polymorphism in the human mu opioid receptor gene alters β-endorphin binding and activity: possible implications for opiate addiction

…, J Schluger, JA Strong, SM Leal… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Opioid drugs play important roles in the clinical management of pain, as well as in the
development and treatment of drug abuse. The mu opioid receptor is the primary site of action for …

Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants

…, TD O'connor, G Jun, HM Kang, G Abecasis, SM Leal… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Establishing the age of each mutation segregating in contemporary human populations is
important to fully understand our evolutionary history 1 , 2 and will help to facilitate the …

[PDF][PDF] The genetic basis of Mendelian phenotypes: discoveries, challenges, and opportunities

…, VR Sutton, HK Tabor, SM Leal… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
Discovering the genetic basis of a Mendelian phenotype establishes a causal link between
genotype and phenotype, making possible carrier and population screening and direct …

Excess of rare, inherited truncating mutations in autism

…, A Raja, BP Coe, HA Stessman, ZX He, SM Leal… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
To assess the relative impact of inherited and de novo variants on autism risk, we generated
a comprehensive set of exonic single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and copy number variants …

Homozygous mutations in LPIN2 are responsible for the syndrome of chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis and congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia (Majeed …

…, S Chen, MK Tayeh, L Ochoa, SM Leal… - Journal of medical …, 2005 - jmg.bmj.com
Background: Majeed syndrome is an autosomal recessive, autoinflammatory disorder
characterised by chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis and congenital dyserythropoietic …

Activation of neutrophils by autocrine IL-17A–IL-17RC interactions during fungal infection is regulated by IL-6, IL-23, RORγt and dectin-2

PR Taylor, S Roy, SM Leal Jr, Y Sun, SJ Howell… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Here we identified a population of bone marrow neutrophils that constitutively expressed
the transcription factor RORγt and produced and responded to interleukin 17A (IL-17A (IL-17)). …