2024
Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy Is a Novel Predictor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Risk
Pasca S, Hong Y, Shi W, Puiu D, Lake N, Lek M, Guallar E, Arking D, Gondek L. Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy Is a Novel Predictor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Risk. Blood 2024, 144: 4054-4054. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2024-210250.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMitochondrial heteroplasmyClonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potentialMtDNA heteroplasmyWhole-exome sequencing dataSomatic mutationsPresence of somatic mutationsExome sequencing dataCancer-associated genesClonal hematopoiesisClonal expansionVariant allele frequencyAssociated with myeloid malignanciesMtDNA variantsMitochondrial DNAPresence of mutationsSequence dataUK Biobank (UKBBiologically significant roleDeleterious mutationsHeteroplasmyChronic lymphocytic leukemia riskAllele frequenciesOncogenic transformationMitochondrial functionMyeloid genes
2016
Patterns of genic intolerance of rare copy number variation in 59,898 human exomes
Ruderfer DM, Hamamsy T, Lek M, Karczewski KJ, Kavanagh D, Samocha KE, Daly M, MacArthur D, Fromer M, Purcell S. Patterns of genic intolerance of rare copy number variation in 59,898 human exomes. Nature Genetics 2016, 48: 1107-1111. PMID: 27533299, PMCID: PMC5042837, DOI: 10.1038/ng.3638.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenic copy number variantsHuman genetic variationExome Aggregation ConsortiumRare copy number variationsCopy number variationsCopy number variantsExome sequencing dataGenetic variationGenic intoleranceHuman exomeSequencing dataPersonal genomesNumber variationsNumber variantsGenomeIntegrated databaseExomeVariationVariantsConsortium