GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions

…, SL Clarke, BT Schaar, CB Lowe, AM Wenger… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We developed the Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool (GREAT) to analyze
the functional significance of cis-regulatory regions identified by localized measurements of …

Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome

AM Wenger, P Peluso, WJ Rowell, PC Chang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The DNA sequencing technologies in use today produce either highly accurate short reads
or less-accurate long reads. We report the optimization of circular consensus sequencing (…

Variant review with the integrative genomics viewer

JT Robinson, H Thorvaldsdóttir, AM Wenger, A Zehir… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
AM Wenger is an employee and shareholder of Pacific Biosciences, a company commercializing
DNA sequencing technologies. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed by the …

Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation

…, MJP Chaisson, J Chen, C Li, H Brand, AM Wenger… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The characterization of the full spectrum of genetic variation is critical to
understanding human health and disease. Recent technological advances have made it …

M-CAP eliminates a majority of variants of uncertain significance in clinical exomes at high sensitivity

KA Jagadeesh, AM Wenger, MJ Berger, H Guturu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Variant pathogenicity classifiers such as SIFT, PolyPhen-2, CADD, and MetaLR assist in
interpretation of the hundreds of rare, missense variants in the typical patient genome by …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes

…, X Kong, F Hormozdiari, D Lee, AM Wenger… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The incomplete identification of structural variants (SVs) from whole-genome sequencing
data limits studies of human genetic diversity and disease association. Here, we apply a suite …

The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome

…, AC Watwood, MH Weissensteiner, AM Wenger… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The human Y chromosome has been notoriously difficult to sequence and assemble
because of its complex repeat structure that includes long palindromes, tandem repeats and …

A robust benchmark for detection of germline large deletions and insertions

…, A Bashir, S Jackman, JJ Farrell, AM Wenger… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
New technologies and analysis methods are enabling genomic structural variants (SVs) to
be detected with ever-increasing accuracy, resolution and comprehensiveness. To help …

Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits

…, X Lim, DB Menke, BT Schaar, AM Wenger… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Humans differ from other animals in many aspects of anatomy, physiology, and behaviour;
however, the genotypic basis of most human-specific traits remains unknown 1 . Recent whole…

[HTML][HTML] Systematic reanalysis of clinical exome data yields additional diagnoses: implications for providers

AM Wenger, H Guturu, JA Bernstein, G Bejerano - Genetics in Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose Clinical exome sequencing is nondiagnostic for about 75% of patients evaluated
for a possible Mendelian disorder. We examined the ability of systematic reevaluation of …