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- Title
Olorin: combining gene flow with exome sequencing in large family studies of complex disease.
- Authors
Morris, James A; Barrett, Jeffrey C
- Abstract
The existence of families with many individuals affected by the same complex disease has long suggested the possibility of rare alleles of high penetrance. In contrast to Mendelian diseases, however, linkage studies have identified very few reproducibly linked loci in diseases such as diabetes and autism. Genome-wide association studies have had greater success with such diseases, but these results explain neither the extreme disease load nor the within-family linkage peaks, of some large pedigrees. Combining linkage information with exome or genome sequencing from large complex disease pedigrees might finally identify family-specific, high-penetrance mutations.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2012, Vol 28, Issue 24, p3320
- ISSN
1367-4811
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/bts609