Adam Auton

A global reference for human genetic variation

Genes mirror geography within Europe

The variant call format and VCFtools

Abstract Summary: The variant call format (VCF) is a generic format for storing DNA polymorphism data such as SNPs, insertions, deletions and structural variants, together with ...

Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank identifies variants in excitatory synaptic pathways

Bayesian refinement of association signals for 14 loci in 3 common diseases

An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

By characterizing the geographic and functional spectrum of human genetic variation, the 1000 Genomes Project aims to build a resource to help to understand the genetic contribu...

Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

Quantifying patterns of population structure in Africans and African Americans illuminates the history of human populations and is critical for undertaking medical genomic studi...

Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

Copy number variants (CNVs) account for a major proportion of human genetic polymorphism and have been predicted to have an important role in genetic susceptibility to common di...