http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23687434/
METHODS: Publicly available data from the Exome Variant Project were analyzed, focusing on 36 genes known to harbor mutations causing autosomal dominant macular dystrophy.
RESULTS: Rates of rare (minor allele frequency ≤0.1%) and private missense variants within autosomal dominant retinal dystrophy genes were found to occur at a high frequency in unaffected individuals, while nonsense variants were not.
CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that rare missense variations in most of these genes identified in individuals with retinal dystrophy cannot be confidently classified as disease-causing in the absence of additional information such as linkage or functional validation.
PMID 23687434 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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