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Gonçalo R. Abecasis

Researcher at University of Michigan

Publications -  629
Citations -  271012

Gonçalo R. Abecasis is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 179, co-authored 595 publications receiving 230323 citations. Previous affiliations of Gonçalo R. Abecasis include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.

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PRF1 mutation alters immune system activation, inflammation, and risk of autoimmunity.

TL;DR: It is reported that PRF1:p.A91V, is associated with increase of lymphocyte levels, especially within the cytotoxic memory T-cells, at general population level with reduced interleukin 7 receptor expression on these cells.
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Integrating comprehensive functional annotations to boost power and accuracy in gene-based association analysis.

TL;DR: A statistical framework and computational tool is presented to integrate heterogeneous annotations with GWAS summary statistics for gene-based analysis, applied with comprehensive coding and tissue-specific regulatory annotations, and it is found that incorporating heterogeneous Annotations in gene- based association analysis increases power and performance identifying causal genes.
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emeraLD: rapid linkage disequilibrium estimation with massive datasets.

TL;DR: Efficient Methods for Estimation and Random Access of LD (EMeraLD) as mentioned in this paper is a computational tool that leverages sparsity and haplotype structure to estimate LD up to 2 orders of magnitude faster than current tools.
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Scalable generalized linear mixed model for region-based association tests in large biobanks and cohorts

TL;DR: It is shown that SAIGE-GENE can efficiently analyze large sample data (N > 400,000) with type I error rates well controlled and is applicable to exome-wide and genome-wide region-based analysis for hundreds of thousands of samples.