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      The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog)

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          The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog has provided data from published genome-wide association studies since 2008. In 2015, the database was redesigned and relocated to EMBL-EBI. The new infrastructure includes a new graphical user interface ( www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/), ontology supported search functionality and an improved curation interface. These developments have improved the data release frequency by increasing automation of curation and providing scaling improvements. The range of available Catalog data has also been extended with structured ancestry and recruitment information added for all studies. The infrastructure improvements also support scaling for larger arrays, exome and sequencing studies, allowing the Catalog to adapt to the needs of evolving study design, genotyping technologies and user needs in the future.

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              Genetic Basis of Common Human Disease: Insight into the Role of Missense SNPs from Genome-Wide Association Studies.

              Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the reliable identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at a number of loci associated with increased risk of specific common human diseases. Each such locus implicates multiple possible candidate SNPs for involvement in disease mechanism. A variety of mechanisms may link the presence of an SNP to altered in vivo gene product function and hence contribute to disease risk. Here, we report an analysis of the role of one of these mechanisms, missense SNPs (msSNPs) in proteins in seven complex trait diseases. Linkage disequilibrium information was used to identify possible candidate msSNPs associated with increased disease risk at each of 356 loci for the seven diseases. Two computational methods were used to estimate which of these SNPs has a significant impact on in vivo protein function. 69% of the loci have at least one candidate msSNP and 33% have at least one predicted high-impact msSNP. In some cases, these SNPs are in well-established disease-related proteins, such as MST1 (macrophage stimulating 1) for Crohn's disease. In others, they are in proteins identified by GWAS as likely candidates for disease relevance, but previously without known mechanism, such as ADAMTS13 (ADAM metallopeptidase with thrombospondin type 1 motif, 13) for coronary artery disease. In still other cases, the missense SNPs are in proteins not previously suggested as disease candidates, such as TUBB1 (tubulin, beta 1, class VI) for hypertension. Together, these data support a substantial role for this class of SNPs in susceptibility to common human disease.
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                Journal
                Nucleic Acids Res
                Nucleic Acids Res
                nar
                nar
                Nucleic Acids Research
                Oxford University Press
                0305-1048
                1362-4962
                04 January 2017
                28 November 2016
                28 November 2016
                : 45
                : Database issue , Database issue
                : D896-D901
                Affiliations
                [1 ]European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
                [2 ]Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
                Author notes
                [* ]To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1223 494 672; Fax: +44 1223 494 468; Email: parkinson@ 123456ebi.ac.uk
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9927-8560
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2513-5396
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3897-7955
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7445-2419
                Article
                10.1093/nar/gkw1133
                5210590
                27899670
                ce79eab7-f9bc-44f8-a39d-dda6c42baac6
                © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@ 123456oup.com

                History
                : 02 November 2016
                : 12 October 2016
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                Pages: 6
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                Genetics
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