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Shamil Sunyaev

Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Medicine (BWH), Harvard Medical School
Verified email at rics.bwh.harvard.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for investigating causality of sequence variants in human disease

…, JA Stamatoyannopoulos, SR Sunyaev… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… In such cases we acknowledge that the suggestive evidence pointing to a gene’s potential
implication can nevertheless be valuable in future clinical and research investigations, and …

Exome sequencing and the genetic basis of complex traits

…, AL Price, PIW De Bakker, SM Purcell, SR Sunyaev - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
… Fisher 's exact test was used to calculate P values after sample size extrapolations. …
Romeo, S. et al. Rare loss-of-function mutations in ANGPTL family members contribute to …

Towards a structural basis of human non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms

S Sunyaev, V Ramensky, P Bork - Trends in genetics, 2000 - cell.com
The set of disease-causing mutations in human proteins with known structures was
extracted from the SWISS-PROT database by keyword search followed by an analysis of the …

Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes

…, M Meyerson, TR Golub, DA Gordenin, S Sunyaev… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Major international projects are underway that are aimed at creating a comprehensive catalogue
of all the genes responsible for the initiation and progression of cancer 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

…, SJM Jones, W Li, MA Marra, MT McManus, S Sunyaev… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The reference human genome sequence set the stage for studies of genetic variation and
its association with human disease, but epigenomic studies lack a similar reference. To …

A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations

…, A Gerasimova, P Bork, AS Kondrashov, SR Sunyaev - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
2). For instance, in this setting with m= 10 and q= 10, IDA found 4, 4, 5, 1 and 2 true positives
for the five different networks, whereas Lasso found 1, 1, 0, 1 and 2 true positives and …

Systematic localization of common disease-associated variation in regulatory DNA

…, C Cotsapas, N Sotoodehnia, I Glass, SR Sunyaev… - Science, 2012 - science.org
… of pathogenic cell types for Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and … Although Crohn’s
pathology has classically been associated … any prior knowledge about Crohn’s disease pathology. …

[HTML][HTML] The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome

…, VR Iyer, JD Lieb, SR Sunyaev… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are markers of regulatory DNA and have underpinned
the discovery of all classes of cis-regulatory elements including enhancers, promoters, …

Patterns and rates of exonic de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorders

…, BE Boone, SE Levy, C Betancur, S Sunyaev… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are believed to have genetic and environmental origins,
yet in only a modest fraction of individuals can specific causes be identified 1 , 2 . To identify …

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

…, D Altshuler, DA Nickerson, E Boerwinkle, S Sunyaev… - science, 2012 - science.org
… We used Fisher’s exact test, a robust approach for aggregate testing of rare variation at a
locus (27), to determine the power to detect an association for each gene harboring rare causal …