A global reference for human genetic variation.
Adam Auton,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,David Altshuler,Richard Durbin,David R. Bentley,Aravinda Chakravarti,Andrew G. Clark,Peter Donnelly,Evan E. Eichler,Paul Flicek,Stacey Gabriel,Richard A. Gibbs,Eric D. Green,Matthew E. Hurles,Bartha Maria Knoppers,Jan O. Korbel,Eric S. Lander,Charles Lee,Hans Lehrach,Elaine R. Mardis,Gabor T. Marth,Gil McVean,Deborah A. Nickerson,Jeanette Schmidt,Stephen T. Sherry,Jun Wang,Richard K. Wilson,Eric Boerwinkle,Harsha Doddapaneni,Yi Han,Viktoriya Korchina,Christie Kovar,Sandra L. Lee,Donna M. Muzny,Jeffrey G. Reid,Yiming Zhu,Yuqi Chang,Qiang Feng,Qiang Feng,Xiaodong Fang,Xiaodong Fang,Xiaosen Guo,Xiaosen Guo,Min Jian,Min Jian,Hui Jiang,Hui Jiang,Xin Jin,Tianming Lan,Guoqing Li,Jingxiang Li,Yingrui Li,Shengmao Liu,Xiao Liu,Xiao Liu,Yao Lu,Xuedi Ma,Meifang Tang,Bo Wang,Guangbiao Wang,Honglong Wu,Renhua Wu,Xun Xu,Ye Yin,Dandan Zhang,Wenwei Zhang,Jiao Zhao,Meiru Zhao,Xiaole Zheng,Namrata Gupta,Neda Gharani,Lorraine Toji,Norman P. Gerry,Alissa M. Resch,Jonathan Barker,Laura Clarke,Laurent Gil,Sarah E. Hunt,Gavin Kelman,Eugene Kulesha,Rasko Leinonen,William M. McLaren,Rajesh Radhakrishnan,Asier Roa,Dmitriy Smirnov,Richard Smith,Ian Streeter,Anja Thormann,Iliana Toneva,Brendan Vaughan,Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley,Russell J. Grocock,Sean Humphray,Terena James,Zoya Kingsbury,Ralf Sudbrak,M. Albrecht,Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy,Tatiana A. Borodina,Matthias Lienhard,Florian Mertes,Marc Sultan,Bernd Timmermann,Marie-Laure Yaspo,Lucinda Fulton,Victor Ananiev,Zinaida Belaia,Dimitriy Beloslyudtsev,Nathan Bouk,Chao Chen,Deanna M. Church,Robert M. Cohen,Charles Cook,John Garner,Timothy Hefferon,Mikhail Kimelman,Chunlei Liu,John Lopez,Peter Meric,Chris O’Sullivan,Yuri Ostapchuk,Lon Phan,Sergiy Ponomarov,Valerie A. Schneider,Eugene Shekhtman,Karl Sirotkin,Douglas J. Slotta,Hua Zhang,Senduran Balasubramaniam,John Burton,Petr Danecek,Thomas M. Keane,Anja Kolb-Kokocinski,Shane A. McCarthy,James Stalker,Michael A. 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The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of individuals from multiple populations, and has reconstructed the genomes of 2,504 individuals from 26 populations using a combination of low-coverage whole-generation sequencing, deep exome sequencing, and dense microarray genotyping.Abstract:
The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of individuals from multiple populations. Here we report completion of the project, having reconstructed the genomes of 2,504 individuals from 26 populations using a combination of low-coverage whole-genome sequencing, deep exome sequencing, and dense microarray genotyping. We characterized a broad spectrum of genetic variation, in total over 88 million variants (84.7 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), 3.6 million short insertions/deletions (indels), and 60,000 structural variants), all phased onto high-quality haplotypes. This resource includes >99% of SNP variants with a frequency of >1% for a variety of ancestries. We describe the distribution of genetic variation across the global sample, and discuss the implications for common disease studies.read more
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