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Beryl Cummings

Broad Institute
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[HTML][HTML] Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

…, AH O'Donnell-Luria, JS Ware, AJ Hill, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Large-scale reference data sets of human genetic variation are critical for the medical and
functional interpretation of DNA sequence changes. Here we describe the aggregation and …

[HTML][HTML] The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

KJ Karczewski, LC Francioli, G Tiao, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic variants that inactivate protein-coding genes are a powerful source of information
about the phenotypic consequences of gene disruption: genes that are crucial for the function …

Variation across 141,456 human exomes and genomes reveals the spectrum of loss-of-function intolerance across human protein-coding genes

KJ Karczewski, LC Francioli, G Tiao, BB Cummings… - biorxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Genetic variants that inactivate protein-coding genes are a powerful source of information
about the phenotypic consequences of gene disruption: genes critical for an organism’s …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape of X chromosome inactivation across human tissues

…, L Gauthier, M Fleharty, A Kirby, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
X chromosome inactivation (XCI) silences transcription from one of the two X chromosomes
in female mammalian cells to balance expression dosage between XX females and XY …

The ExAC browser: displaying reference data information from over 60 000 exomes

…, M Lek, KE Samocha, BB Cummings… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of humans have had their genomes or exomes
sequenced, and access to the resulting data sets can provide valuable information for variant …

Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing

BB Cummings, JL Marshall, T Tukiainen… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Exome and whole-genome sequencing are becoming increasingly routine approaches in
Mendelian disease diagnosis. Despite their success, the current diagnostic rate for genomic …

[HTML][HTML] TDP-43 represses cryptic exon inclusion in the FTD–ALS gene UNC13A

…, C Guo, T Akiyama, HB Schmidt, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
A hallmark pathological feature of the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the depletion of RNA-binding protein TDP-…

Transcriptome variation in human tissues revealed by long-read sequencing

…, DG MacArthur, T Lappalainen, BB Cummings - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Regulation of transcript structure generates transcript diversity and plays an important role
in human disease 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 – 7 . The advent of long-read sequencing technologies …

[PDF][PDF] The genetic landscape of Diamond-Blackfan anemia

…, G Genovese, ET Lim, A Cheng, BB Cummings… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a rare bone marrow failure disorder that affects 7 out of
1,000,000 live births and has been associated with mutations in components of the ribosome…

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating drug targets through human loss-of-function genetic variation

EV Minikel, KJ Karczewski, HC Martin, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Naturally occurring human genetic variants that are predicted to inactivate protein-coding
genes provide an in vivo model of human gene inactivation that complements knockout studies …