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Daniel G. MacArthur

Researcher at Broad Institute

Publications -  281
Citations -  73196

Daniel G. MacArthur is an academic researcher from Broad Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Exome sequencing. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 265 publications receiving 54145 citations. Previous affiliations of Daniel G. MacArthur include Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Rare Complete Knockouts in Humans: Population Distribution and Significant Role in Autism Spectrum Disorders

TL;DR: Results provide compelling evidence that rare autosomal and X chromosome complete gene knockouts are important inherited risk factors for ASD.
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Regional missense constraint improves variant deleteriousness prediction

TL;DR: This work leveraged the exome sequencing data of 60,706 individuals from the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) dataset to identify sub-genic regions that are depleted of missense variation and used this depletion as part of a novel missense deleteriousness metric named MPC.