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Jason P. Affourtit
Researcher at Hoffmann-La Roche
Publications - 32
Citations - 18509
Jason P. Affourtit is an academic researcher from Hoffmann-La Roche. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome & Gene. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 32 publications receiving 16527 citations. Previous affiliations of Jason P. Affourtit include Life Technologies & Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins
Peter J. Turnbaugh,Micah Hamady,Tanya Yatsunenko,Brandi L. Cantarel,Alexis E. Duncan,Ruth E. Ley,Mitchell L. Sogin,William J. Jones,Bruce A. Roe,Jason P. Affourtit,Michael Egholm,Bernard Henrissat,Andrew C. Heath,Rob Knight,Jeffrey I. Gordon +14 more
TL;DR: The faecal microbial communities of adult female monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs concordant for leanness or obesity, and their mothers are characterized to address how host genotype, environmental exposure and host adiposity influence the gut microbiome.
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A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Richard E. Green,Johannes Krause,Adrian W. Briggs,Tomislav Maricic,Udo Stenzel,Martin Kircher,Nick Patterson,Heng Li,Weiwei Zhai,Markus Hsi-Yang Fritz,Nancy F. Hansen,Eric Durand,Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas,Jeffrey D. Jensen,Tomas Marques-Bonet,Tomas Marques-Bonet,Can Alkan,Kay Prüfer,Matthias Meyer,Hernán A. Burbano,Jeffrey M. Good,Jeffrey M. Good,Rigo Schultz,Ayinuer Aximu-Petri,Anne Butthof,Barbara Höber,Barbara Höffner,Madien Siegemund,Antje Weihmann,Chad Nusbaum,Eric S. Lander,Carsten Russ,Nathaniel Novod,Jason P. Affourtit,Michael Egholm,Christine Verna,Pavao Rudan,Dejana Brajković,Željko Kućan,Ivan Gušić,Vladimir B. Doronichev,Liubov V. Golovanova,Carles Lalueza-Fox,Marco de la Rasilla,Javier Fortea,Antonio Rosas,Ralf Schmitz,Philip L. F. Johnson,Evan E. Eichler,Daniel Falush,Ewan Birney,James C. Mullikin,Montgomery Slatkin,Rasmus Nielsen,Janet Kelso,Michael Lachmann,David Reich,David Reich,Svante Pääbo +58 more
TL;DR: The genomic data suggest that Neandertals mixed with modern human ancestors some 120,000 years ago, leaving traces of Ne andertal DNA in contemporary humans, suggesting that gene flow from Neand Bertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.
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The genome of the domesticated apple ( Malus × domestica Borkh.)
Riccardo Velasco,Andrey Zharkikh,Jason P. Affourtit,Amit Dhingra,Alessandro Cestaro,Ananth Kalyanaraman,Paolo Fontana,Satish Bhatnagar,Michela Troggio,Dmitry Pruss,Silvio Salvi,Massimo Pindo,Paolo Baldi,Sara Castelletti,Marina Cavaiuolo,G. Coppola,Fabrizio Costa,V. Cova,Antonio Dal Ri,Vadim V. Goremykin,M. Komjanc,Sara Longhi,P. Magnago,Giulia Malacarne,Mickael Malnoy,Diego Micheletti,Marco Moretto,Michele Perazzolli,Azeddine Si-Ammour,Silvia Vezzulli,E. Zini,Glenn Eldredge,Lisa M. Fitzgerald,N. Gutin,Jerry S. Lanchbury,Teresita Macalma,J.T. Mitchell,Julia Reid,Bryan Wardell,Chinnappa D. Kodira,Zhoutao Chen,Brian Desany,Faheem Niazi,Melinda Palmer,Tyson Koepke,Derick Jiwan,Scott Schaeffer,Vandhana Krishnan,Changjun Wu,Vu T. Chu,Stephen T. King,Jessica Vick,Quanzhou Tao,Amy Mraz,Aimee Stormo,Keith E. Stormo,Robert Bogden,Davide Ederle,Alessandra Stella,Alberto Vecchietti,Martin M. Kater,Simona Masiero,Pauline Lasserre,Yves Lespinasse,Andrew C. Allan,Vincent G. M. Bus,David Chagné,Ross N. Crowhurst,Andrew P. Gleave,Enrico Lavezzo,Jeffrey A. Fawcett,Jeffrey A. Fawcett,Sebastian Proost,Sebastian Proost,Pierre Rouzé,Pierre Rouzé,Lieven Sterck,Lieven Sterck,Stefano Toppo,Barbara Lazzari,Roger P. Hellens,Charles-Eric Durel,Alexander Gutin,Roger E. Bumgarner,Susan E. Gardiner,Mark H. Skolnick,Michael Egholm,Yves Van de Peer,Yves Van de Peer,Francesco Salamini,Roberto Viola +90 more
TL;DR: It is shown that a relatively recent (>50 million years ago) genome-wide duplication has resulted in the transition from nine ancestral chromosomes to 17 chromosomes in the Pyreae, which partly support the monophyly of the ancestral paleohexaploidy of eudicots.
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Paired-end mapping reveals extensive structural variation in the human genome.
Jan O. Korbel,Alexander E. Urban,Jason P. Affourtit,Brian C. Godwin,Fabian Grubert,Jan Fredrik Simons,Philip M. Kim,Dean Palejev,Nicholas Carriero,Lei Du,Bruce E. Taillon,Zhoutao Chen,Andrea Tanzer,A. C. Eugenia Saunders,Jianxiang Chi,Fengtang Yang,Nigel P. Carter,Matthew E. Hurles,Sherman M. Weissman,Timothy T. Harkins,Mark Gerstein,Michael Egholm,Michael Snyder +22 more
TL;DR: High-throughput and massive paired-end mapping (PEM) was used to map SVs in an African and in a putatively European individual and identified shared and divergent SVs relative to the reference genome, documenting that the number of SVs among humans is much larger than initially hypothesized; many of the SVs potentially affect gene function.
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Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing
Ryan E. Mills,Klaudia Walter,Chip Stewart,Robert E. Handsaker,Ken Chen,Can Alkan,Alexej Abyzov,Seungtai Yoon,Kai Ye,R. Keira Cheetham,Asif T. Chinwalla,Donald F. Conrad,Yutao Fu,Fabian Grubert,Iman Hajirasouliha,Fereydoun Hormozdiari,Lilia M. Iakoucheva,Zamin Iqbal,Shuli Kang,Jeffrey M. Kidd,Miriam K. Konkel,Joshua M. Korn,Ekta Khurana,Deniz Kural,Hugo Y. K. Lam,Jing Leng,Ruiqiang Li,Yingrui Li,Chang-Yun Lin,Ruibang Luo,Xinmeng Jasmine Mu,James Nemesh,Heather E. Peckham,Tobias Rausch,Aylwyn Scally,Xinghua Shi,Michael Strömberg,Adrian M. Sütz,Alexander E. Urban,Jerilyn A. Walker,Jiantao Wu,Yujun Zhang,Zhengdong D. Zhang,Mark A. Batzer,Li Ding,Gabor T. Marth,Gil McVean,Jonathan Sebat,Michael Snyder,Jun Wang,Jun Wang,Kenny Ye,Evan E. Eichler,Mark Gerstein,Matthew E. Hurles,Charles Lee,Steven A. McCarroll,Steven A. McCarroll,Jan O. Korbel,Francis S. Collins,D. L. Altshuler,Richard Durbin,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,David R. Bentley,Aravinda Chakravarti,Andrew G. Clark,F. M. De La Vega,Peter Donnelly,Michael Egholm,Paul Flicek,S. Gabriel,Richard A. Gibbs,Bartha Maria Knoppers,Eric S. Lander,Hans Lehrach,Elaine R. Mardis,Gilean McVean,Deborah A. Nickerson,Leena Peltonen,Alan J. Schafer,Stephen T. Sherry,Richard K. Wilson,David Rio Deiros,Michael L. Metzker,Donna Muzny,Jeffrey S. Reid,D Wheeler,Jingxiang Li,Min Jian,Guoqing Li,Huiqing Liang,Geng Tian,Bo Wang,Wei Wang,Huanming Yang,Xiuqing Zhang,Huisong Zheng,Lauren Ambrogio,Toby Bloom,Kristian Cibulskis,T. J. Fennell,David B. Jaffe,Erica Shefler,Carrie Sougnez,Niall Anthony Gormley,Sean Humphray,Zoya Kingsbury,P. Koko-Gonzales,Jennifer Stone,Kevin McKernan,Gianna Costa,Jeffrey K. Ichikawa,Cheng-Sheng Lee,Ralf Sudbrak,Tatjana Borodina,Andreas Dahl,Alexey N. Davydov,P. Marquardt,Florian Mertes,Wilfried Nietfeld,Philip Rosenstiel,Stuart L. Schreiber,Alexey Soldatov,Bernd Timmermann,M. Tolzmann,Jason P. Affourtit,D. Ashworth,S. Attiya,M. Bachorski,E. Buglione,A. Burke,A. Caprio,Christopher Celone,S. Clark,D. Conners,B. Desany,L. Gu,L. Guccione,K. Kao,A. Kebbel,J. Knowlton,M. Labrecque,L. McDade,Craig Elder Mealmaker,M. Minderman,A. Nawrocki,Faheem Niazi,K. Pareja,Ramenani Ravi K,D. Riches,W. Song,Cynthia L. Turcotte,S. Wang,David J. Dooling,Linnea Fulton,Robert S. Fulton,George M. Weinstock,James O. Burton,David M. Carter,Carol Churcher,Alison J. Coffey,Anthony J. Cox,A. Palotie,Michael A. Quail,Tara Skelly,Jim Stalker,Harold Swerdlow,Dan Turner,A. De Witte,S. Giles,Matthew N. Bainbridge,Danny Challis,Aniko Sabo,Fuli Yu,Jin Yu,Xiaodong Fang,Xiaosen Guo,Shuaishuai Tai,Honglong Wu,Xiaole Zheng,Yan Zhou,E. P. Garrison,Weichun Huang,Amit Indap,Wan-Ping Lee,Wen Fung Leong,Aaron R. Quinlan,Alistair Ward,Mark J. Daly,Mark A. DePristo,A. D. Ball,Eric Banks,Brian L. Browning,Kiran V. Garimella,Sharon R. Grossman,Megan Hanna,Christopher Hartl,Andrew Kernytsky,J. M. Korn,Heng Li,Jared Maguire,Aaron McKenna,James Nemesh,Anthony A. Philippakis,Ryan Poplin,Amanda J. Price,Manual Rivas,Pardis C. Sabeti,Stephen F. Schaffner,Ilya Shlyakhter,David Neil Cooper,Edward V. Ball,Matthew Mort,Adam Phillips,Peter D. Stenson,Vladimir Makarov,Carlos Bustamante,Adam R. Boyko,Jeremiah D. Degenhardt,Simon Gravel,Ryan N. Gutenkunst,Mark Kaganovich,Alon Keinan,Philippe Lacroute,Xin Ma,Alex Reynolds,Laura Clarke,Fiona Cunningham,Javier Herrero,S. Keenen,Eugene Kulesha,Rasko Leinonen,William M. McLaren,Rajesh Radhakrishnan,Raffaella Smith,Vadim Zalunin,Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley,Adrian M. Stütz,Michael Bauer,Tony Cox,Michael A. Eberle,Terena James,Scott Kahn,Lucinda Murray,Fiona Hyland,Jonathan M. Manning,Stephen F. McLaughlin,Onur Sakarya,Yongming A. Sun,Eric F. Tsung,M. Albrecht,Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy,Ralf Herwig,Dmitri Parkhomchuk,Richa Agarwala,H. M. Khouri,Aleksandr Morgulis,Justin Paschall,Lon Phan,Kirill Rotmistrovsky,Robert Sanders,Martin Shumway,Chunlin Xiao,Adam Auton,Gerton Lunter,Jonathan Marchini,Loukas Moutsianas,Simon Myers,Afidalina Tumian,Jo Knight,Roger Winer,David Craig,Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg,Alexis Christoforides,Ahmet Kurdoglu,John V. Pearson,Shripad Sinari,Waibhav Tembe,David Haussler,Angie S. Hinrichs,Sol Katzman,Andrew D. Kern,Robert M. Kuhn,Molly Przeworski,Ryan D. Hernandez,Bryan Howie,Joanna L. Kelley,S. C. Melton,Paige Anderson,Thomas W. Blackwell,Wei Chen,William O.C.M. Cookson,Jun Ding,Hyun Min Kang,Mark Lathrop,Liming Liang,Miriam F. Moffatt,Paul Scheet,C Sidore,Xiaowei Zhan,Sebastian Zöllner,Philip Awadalla,Ferran Casals,Youssef Idaghdour,Jon Keebler,Eric A. Stone,Martine Zilversmit,Lynn B. Jorde,Jinchuan Xing,Gozde Aksay,Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp,Peter H. Sudmant,Daniel C. Koboldt,Michael D. McLellan,John W. Wallis,Michael C. Wendl,Qunyuan Zhang,Cornelis A. Albers,Qasim Ayub,Senduran Balasubramaniam,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Yuan Chen,Petr Danecek,Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis,Min Hu,Ni Huang,Han-Jun Jin,Luke Jostins,Thomas M. Keane,Si Quang Le,Susan Lindsay,Quan Long,Daniel G. MacArthur,Stephen B. Montgomery,Leopold Parts,Chris Tyler-Smith,Shankar Balasubramanian,Robert D. Bjornson,Jiang Du,Lukas Habegger,Rajini R Haraksingh,Justin Jee,H. Y. Lam,J. Jeng,Zhaolei Zhang,E. Bank,S. Yoon,J. Kidd,C. Coafra,Huyen Dinh,Christie Kovar,Sandra J. Lee,Lynne V. Nazareth,Jane Wilkinson,H. M. Khouri,Carol Scott,Neda Gharani,Jane Kaye,Alastair Kent,T. Li,Amy L. McGuire,Pilar N. Ossorio,Charles N. Rotimi,Yeyang Su,Lorraine Toji,Lisa D Brooks,Adam Felsenfeld,Jean E. McEwen,Assya Abdallah,C. R. Juenger,N. C. Clemm,Audrey Duncanson,Eric D. Green,Mark S. Guyer,Jessica L. Peterson +374 more
TL;DR: A map of unbalanced SVs is constructed based on whole genome DNA sequencing data from 185 human genomes, integrating evidence from complementary SV discovery approaches with extensive experimental validations, and serves as a resource for sequencing-based association studies.