Insights into the genetic epidemiology of Crohn's and rare diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

As part of a broader collaborative network of exome sequencing studies, we developed a jointly called data set of 5,685 Ashkenazi Jewish exomes. We make publicly available a resource of site and allele frequencies, which should serve as a reference for medical genetics in the Ashkenazim (hosted in p...

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Main Authors: Manuel A Rivas, Brandon E Avila, Jukka Koskela, Hailiang Huang, Christine Stevens, Matti Pirinen, Talin Haritunians, Benjamin M Neale, Mitja Kurki, Andrea Ganna, Daniel Graham, Benjamin Glaser, Inga Peter, Gil Atzmon, Nir Barzilai, Adam P Levine, Elena Schiff, Nikolas Pontikos, Ben Weisburd, Monkol Lek, Konrad J Karczewski, Jonathan Bloom, Eric V Minikel, Britt-Sabina Petersen, Laurent Beaugerie, Philippe Seksik, Jacques Cosnes, Stefan Schreiber, Bernd Bokemeyer, Johannes Bethge, International IBD Genetics Consortium, NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium, T2D-GENES Consortium, Graham Heap, Tariq Ahmad, Vincent Plagnol, Anthony W Segal, Stephan Targan, Dan Turner, Paivi Saavalainen, Martti Farkkila, Kimmo Kontula, Aarno Palotie, Steven R Brant, Richard H Duerr, Mark S Silverberg, John D Rioux, Rinse K Weersma, Andre Franke, Luke Jostins, Carl A Anderson, Jeffrey C Barrett, Daniel G MacArthur, Chaim Jalas, Harry Sokol, Ramnik J Xavier, Ann Pulver, Judy H Cho, Dermot P B McGovern, Mark J Daly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007329