| Title: | Exome-wide evaluation of rare coding variants using electronic health records identifies new gene-phenotype associations |
| Journal: | Nature Medicine |
| Published: | 11 Jan 2021 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33432171/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1133-8 |
| URL: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8775355 |
Publication 4824
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Abstract
The clinical impact of rare loss-of-function variants has yet to be determined for most genes. Integration of DNA sequencing data with electronic health records (EHRs) could enhance our understanding of the contribution of rare genetic variation to human disease1. By leveraging 10,900 whole-exome sequences linked to EHR data in the Penn Medicine Biobank, we addressed the association of the cumulative effects of rare predicted loss-of-function variants for each individual gene on human disease on an exome-wide scale, as assessed using a set of diverse EHR phenotypes. After discovering 97 genes with exome-by-phenome-wide significant phenotype associations (P < 10−6), we replicated 26 of these in the Penn Medicine Biobank, as well as in three other medical biobanks and the population-based UK Biobank. Of these 26 genes, five had associations that have been previously reported and represented positive controls, whereas 21 had phenotype associations not previously reported, among which were genes implicated in glaucoma, aortic ectasia, diabetes mellitus, muscular dystrophy and hearing loss. These findings show the value of aggregating rare predicted loss-of-function variants into 'gene burdens' for identifying new gene-disease associations using EHR phenotypes in a medical biobank. We suggest that application of this approach to even larger numbers of individuals will provide the statistical power required to uncover unexplored relationships between rare genetic variation and disease phenotypes.</p>
41 Authors
- Joseph Park
- Anastasia M. Lucas
- Xinyuan Zhang
- Kumardeep Chaudhary
- Judy H. Cho
- Girish Nadkarni
- Amanda Dobbyn
- Geetha Chittoor
- Navya S. Josyula
- Nathan Katz
- Joseph H. Breeyear
- Shadi Ahmadmehrabi
- Theodore G. Drivas
- Venkata R. M. Chavali
- Maria Fasolino
- Hisashi Sawada
- Alan Daugherty
- Yanming Li
- Chen Zhang
- Yuki Bradford
- JoEllen Weaver
- Anurag Verma
- Renae L. Judy
- Rachel L. Kember
- John D. Overton
- Jeffrey G. Reid
- Manuel A. R. Ferreira
- Alexander H. Li
- Aris Baras
- Scott A. LeMaire
- Ying H. Shen
- Ali Naji
- Klaus H. Kaestner
- Golnaz Vahedi
- Todd L. Edwards
- Jinbo Chen
- Scott M. Damrauer
- Anne E. Justice
- Ron Do
- Marylyn D. Ritchie
- Daniel J. Rader
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