Journal
HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 34, Issue 9, Pages 1216-1220Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22375
Keywords
whole genome sequencing; WGS; personalized medicine; incidental findings; incidentalome
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- NHGRI [HG007229]
- NIGMS [GM078598]
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It is now affordable to order clinically interpreted whole-genome sequence reports from clinical laboratories. One major component of these reports is derived from the knowledge base of previously identified pathogenic variants, including research articles, locus-specific, and other databases. While over 150,000 such pathogenic variants have been identified, many of these were originally discovered in small cohort studies of affected individuals, so their applicability to asymptomatic populations is unclear. We analyzed the prevalence of a large set of pathogenic variants from the medical and scientific literature in a large set of asymptomatic individuals (N=1,092) and found 8.5% of these pathogenic variants in at least one individual. In the average individual in the 1000 Genomes Project, previously identified pathogenic variants occur on average 294 times (sigma=25.5) in homozygous form and 942 times (sigma=68.2) in heterozygous form. We also find that many of these pathogenic variants are frequently occurring: there are 3,744 variants with minor allele frequency (MAF)0.01 (4.6%) and 2,837 variants with MAF0.05 (3.5%). This indicates that many of these variants may be erroneous findings or have lower penetrance than previously expected. (C) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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