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A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes
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The depletion of disruptive variation caused by purifying natural selection (constraint) has been widely used to investigate protein-coding genes underlying human disorders 1-4, but attempts to assess constraint for non-protein-coding regions have proved more difficult. Here we aggregate, process and release a dataset of 76,156 human genomes from the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD)-the largest public open-access human genome allele frequency reference dataset-and use it to build a genomic constraint map for the whole genome (genomic non-coding constraint of haploinsufficient variation (Gnocchi)). We present a refined mutational model that incorporates local sequence context and regional genomic features to detect depletions of variation. As expected, the average constraint for protein-coding sequences is stronger than that for non-coding regions. Within the non-coding genome, constrained regions are enriched for known regulatory elements and variants that are implicated in complex human diseases and traits, facilitating the triangulation of biological annotation, disease association and natural selection to non-coding DNA analysis. More constrained regulatory elements tend to regulate more constrained protein-coding genes, which in turn suggests that non-coding constraint can aid the identification of constrained genes that are as yet unrecognized by current gene constraint metrics. We demonstrate that this genome-wide constraint map improves the identification and interpretation of functional human genetic variation.
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- Chen, S., Francioli, L. C., Goodrich, J. K., Collins, R. L., Kanai, M., Wang, Q., Alföldi, J., Watts, N. A., Vittal, C., Gauthier, L. D., Poterba, T., Wilson, M. W., Tarasova, Y., Phu, W., Grant, R., Yohannes, M. T., Koenig, Z., Farjoun, Y., Banks, E., Donnelly, S., Gabriel, S., Gupta, N., Ferriera, S., Tolonen, C., Novod, S., Bergelson, L., Roazen, D., Ruano-Rubio, V., Covarrubias, M., Llanwarne, C., Petrillo, N., Wade, G., Jeandet, T., Munshi, R., Tibbetts, K., Genome Aggregation Database Consortium, Abreu, M., Aguilar Salinas, C. A., Ahmad, T., Albert, C. M., Ardissino, D., Armean, I. M., Atkinson, E. G., Atzmon, G., Barnard, J., Baxter, S. M., Beaugerie, L., Benjamin, E. J., Benjamin, D., Boehnke, M., Bonnycastle, L. L., Bottinger, E. P., Bowden, D. W., Bown, M. J., Brand, H., Brant, S., Brookings, T., Bryant, S., Calvo, S. E., Campos, H., Chambers, J. C., Chan, J. C., Chao, K. R., Chapman, S., Chasman, D. I., Chisholm, R., Cho, J., Chowdhury, R., Chung, M. K., Chung, W. K., Cibulskis, K., Cohen, B., Connolly, K. M., Correa, A., Cummings, B. B., Dabelea, D., Danesh, J., Darbar, D., Darnowsky, P., Denny, J., Duggirala, R., Dupuis, J., Ellinor, P. T., Elosua, R., Emery, J., England, E., Erdmann, J., Esko, T., Evangelista, E., Fatkin, D., Florez, J., Franke, A., Fu, J., Färkkilä, M., Garimella, K., Gentry, J., Getz, G., Glahn, D. C., Glaser, B., Glatt, S. J., Goldstein, D., Gonzalez, C., Groop, L., Gudmundsson, S., Haessly, A., Haiman, C., Hall, I., Hanis, C. L., Harms, M., Hiltunen, M., Holi, M. M., Hultman, C. M., Jalas, C., Kallela, M., Kaplan, D., Kaprio, J., Kathiresan, S., Kenny, E. E., Kim, B.-J., Kim, Y. J., King, D., Kirov, G., Kooner, J., Koskinen, S., Krumholz, H. M., Kugathasan, S., Kwak, S. H., Laakso, M., Lake, N., Langsford, T., Laricchia, K. M., Lehtimäki, T., Lek, M., Lipscomb, E., Loos, R. J. F., Lu, W., Lubitz, S. A., Luna, T. T., Ma, R. C. W., Marcus, G. M., Marrugat, J., Mattila, K. M., McCarroll, S., McCarthy, M. I., McCauley, J. L., McGovern, D., McPherson, R., Meigs, J. B., Melander, O., Metspalu, A., Meyers, D., Minikel, E. V., Mitchell, B. D., Mootha, V. K., Naheed, A., Nazarian, S., Nilsson, P. M., O’Donovan, M. C., Okada, Y., Ongur, D., Orozco, L., Owen, M. J., Palmer, C., Palmer, N. D., Palotie, A., Park, K. S., Pato, C., Pulver, A. E., Rader, D., Rahman, N., Reiner, A., Remes, A. M., Rhodes, D., Rich, S., Rioux, J. D., Ripatti, S., Roden, D. M., Rotter, J. I., Sahakian, N., Saleheen, D., Salomaa, V., Saltzman, A., Samani, N. J., Samocha, K. E., Sanchis-Juan, A., Scharf, J., Schleicher, M., Schunkert, H., Schönherr, S., Seaby, E. G., Shah, S. H., Shand, M., Sharpe, T., Shoemaker, M. B., Shyong, T., Silverman, E. K., Singer-Berk, M., Sklar, P., Smith, J. T., Smith, J. G., Soininen, H., Sokol, H., Son, R. G., Soto, J., Spector, T., Stevens, C., Stitziel, N. O., Sullivan, P. F., Suvisaari, J., Tai, E. S., Taylor, K. D., Teo, Y. Y., Tsuang, M., Tuomi, T., Turner, D., Tusie-Luna, T., Vartiainen, E., Vawter, M., Wang, L., Wang, A., Ware, J. S., Watkins, H., Weersma, R. K., Weisburd, B., Wessman, M., Whiffin, N., Wilson, J. G., Xavier, R. J., O’Donnell-Luria, A., Solomonson, M., Seed, C., Martin, A. R., Talkowski, M. E., Rehm, H. L., Daly, M. J., Tiao, G., Neale, B. M., MacArthur, D. G., & Karczewski, K. J.
- Affiliations
- Broad Institute (US)
- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (CA)
- University of Miami (US)
- Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (GB)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- University of Parma (IT)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Boston University (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences (US)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Harvard University (US)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (GB)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- University of Mississippi Medical Center (US)
- Colorado School of Public Health (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
- Texas A&M University – San Antonio (US)
- University of Lübeck (DE)
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (AU)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- SUNY Upstate Medical University (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- University of Eastern Finland (FI)
- Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Korea National Institute of Health (KR)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (FI)
- Yale New Haven Hospital (US)
- Emory University (US)
- Seoul National University (KR)
- Yale University (US)
- Tampere University (FI)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (MX)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Centro de Investigación en Red en Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (ES)
- Centre for Human Genetics (GB)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (US)
- Ottawa Heart Institute (CA)
- Lund University (SE)
- University of Tartu (EE)
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (JP)
- National Institute of Genomic Medicine (MX)
- University of Dundee (GB)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- Institute of Cancer Research (GB)
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- Oulu University Hospital (FI)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Montreal Heart Institute (CA)
- The Lundquist Institute (US)
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases (PK)
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- Innsbruck Medical University (AT)
- Duke University (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Inserm (FR)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chen, Siwei
- Karczewski, Konrad J.
- ORCID
- Chen, Siwei
- Francioli, Laurent C.
- Goodrich, Julia K.
- Collins, Ryan L.
- Kanai, Masahiro
- Wang, Qingbo
- Alföldi, Jessica
- Poterba, Timothy
- Wilson, Michael W.
- Phu, William
- Farjoun, Yossi
- Banks, Eric
- Donnelly, Stacey
- Gabriel, Stacey
- Gupta, Namrata
- Abreu, Maria
- Ahmad, Tariq
- Albert, Christine M.
- Ardissino, Diego
- Armean, Irina M.
- Atkinson, Elizabeth G.
- Atzmon, Gil
- Barnard, John
- Baxter, Samantha M.
- Beaugerie, Laurent
- Benjamin, Emelia J.
- Boehnke, Michael
- Bonnycastle, Lori L.
- Bowden, Donald W.
- Bown, Matthew J.
- Brand, Harrison
- Brant, Steven
- Calvo, Sarah E.
- Campos, Hannia
- Chambers, John C.
- Chan, Juliana C.
- Chao, Katherine R.
- Chapman, Sinéad
- Chasman, Daniel I.
- Chisholm, Rex
- Cho, Judy
- Chowdhury, Rajiv
- Chung, Mina K.
- Chung, Wendy K.
- Cibulskis, Kristian
- Cohen, Bruce
- Correa, Adolfo
- Cummings, Beryl B.
- Dabelea, Dana
- Danesh, John
- Darbar, Dawood
- Denny, Joshua
- Duggirala, Ravindranath
- Dupuis, Josée
- Ellinor, Patrick T.
- Erdmann, Jeanette
- Esko, Tõnu
- Evangelista, Emily
- Fatkin, Diane
- Fu, Jack
- Färkkilä, Martti
- Garimella, Kiran
- Getz, Gad
- Glahn, David C.
- Glatt, Stephen J.
- Goldstein, David
- Groop, Leif
- Gudmundsson, Sanna
- Haessly, Andrea
- Haiman, Christopher
- Hall, Ira
- Hanis, Craig L.
- Harms, Matthew
- Hiltunen, Mikko
- Holi, Matti M.
- Hultman, Christina M.
- Jalas, Chaim
- Kallela, Mikko
- Kaprio, Jaakko
- Kathiresan, Sekar
- Kenny, Eimear E.
- Kim, Bong-Jo
- Kim, Young Jin
- Kirov, George
- Kooner, Jaspal
- Koskinen, Seppo
- Krumholz, Harlan M.
- Kugathasan, Subra
- Kwak, Soo Heon
- Laakso, Markku
- Lake, Nicole
- Laricchia, Kristen M.
- Lehtimäki, Terho
- Lek, Monkol
- Loos, Ruth J. F.
- Lu, Wenhan
- Lubitz, Steven A.
- Marcus, Gregory M.
- Marrugat, Jaume
- McCarroll, Steven
- McCarthy, Mark I.
- McCauley, Jacob L.
- McGovern, Dermot
- McPherson, Ruth
- Meigs, James B.
- Melander, Olle
- Metspalu, Andres
- Meyers, Deborah
- Minikel, Eric V.
- Mitchell, Braxton D.
- Mootha, Vamsi K.
- Naheed, Aliya
- Nazarian, Saman
- Nilsson, Peter M.
- O’Donovan, Michael C.
- Okada, Yukinori
- Orozco, Lorena
- Owen, Michael J.
- Palotie, Aarno
- Park, Kyong Soo
- Pato, Carlos
- Pulver, Ann E.
- Rahman, Nazneen
- Reiner, Alex
- Rich, Stephen
- Rioux, John D.
- Ripatti, Samuli
- Roden, Dan M.
- Rotter, Jerome I.
- Saleheen, Danish
- Salomaa, Veikko
- Saltzman, Andrea
- Samani, Nilesh J.
- Samocha, Kaitlin E.
- Scharf, Jeremiah
- Schunkert, Heribert
- Schönherr, Sebastian
- Seaby, Eleanor G.
- Shah, Svati H.
- Shand, Megan
- Shoemaker, Moore B.
- Silverman, Edwin K.
- Sklar, Pamela
- Smith, Jonathan T.
- Soininen, Hilkka
- Sokol, Harry
- Son, Rachel G.
- Spector, Tim
- Stevens, Christine
- Stitziel, Nathan O.
- Sullivan, Patrick F.
- Suvisaari, Jaana
- Tai, E. Shyong
- Taylor, Kent D.
- Tsuang, Ming
- Turner, Dan
- Vartiainen, Erkki
- Vawter, Marquis
- Wang, Lily
- Ware, James S.
- Watkins, Hugh
- Weersma, Rinse K.
- Weisburd, Ben
- Whiffin, Nicola
- Wilson, James G.
- Xavier, Ramnik J.
- O’Donnell-Luria, Anne
- Solomonson, Matthew
- Martin, Alicia R.
- Talkowski, Michael E.
- Rehm, Heidi L.
- Daly, Mark J.
- Tiao, Grace
- Neale, Benjamin M.
- MacArthur, Daniel G.
- Karczewski, Konrad J.
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- Nature
- Published
- 2023-12-06
- Volume
- 625
- Issue
- 7993
- Pages
- 92-100
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC11629659
- OpenAlex
- W4389367121
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- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (107469/Z/15/Z)
- National Institutes of Health
- Medical Research Council (MR/L010305/1)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH115957)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (U24HG011450)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U54DK105566)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD081256)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- purifying selection, non-coding DNA, regulatory elements, gnocchi, allele frequency, complex diseases, genetic variants, protein-coding genes, sequence context
- MeSH terms
- Chromosome Mapping, Gene Frequency, Humans, Models, Genetic, Mutation, Selection, Genetic, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Access to Information, Genomics, Databases, Genetic, Datasets as Topic
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