RT @LIFECorporation: Editor-in-Chief @DaleYuzuki introduces 'Behind the Bench' A blog focused on #genomics, #sequencing, #PCR, #NGS...

8:45pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: 'Clearly shows the value of collecting comprehensive clinical phenotypic data' in exome sequencing research #ESHG14

2:02pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: Applied to the NIH Undiagnosed Disease Program: Found all in the top 10; 40% it was the top hit #ESHG14

2:01pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: Showed results from Exomiser tool. Their v2 in beta: includes OMIM and Orphanet along with protein-protein interactors #ESHG14

1:59pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: Are able to back-test their model with known pathogenic genes; made available here: http://t.co/ix0HgDSWXX #ESHG14

1:58pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: Cross-species phenotype comparison: "Phenotypic interpretation of variants in exomes" PubMed http://t.co/VjWq1ZxEua #ESHG14

1:55pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: Another method - using model organisms. Looking at mouse & zebrafish phenotype data PubMed: http://t.co/gbPaJU3vND #ESHG14

1:53pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Smedley: Looking at rare diseases via WES but 10's or 100's that are pathogenic & rare. Use linkage, trios, de novos from trios. #ESHG14

1:51pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Next: Damian Smedley (EBI, Cambridge UK) “Strategies for Exome Prioritization of Human Disease Genes” #ESHG14

1:50pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Meyn: They've enrolled 174 individuals to-date (first in Canada); looking at psychosocial impact, PGx, economic analyses #ESHG14

1:46pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Meyn: Use PhenoTips for phenotyping individuals (PubMed: http://t.co/i3kqRccN1J ) they use Complete Genomics for WGS. #ESHG14

1:43pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Meyn: Recently published their guidelines here PubMed: http://t.co/a4yO7ARujq #ESHG14

1:37pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Stephen Meyn (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Canada): "The SickKids Genome Clinic: Developing and evaluating a pediatric model for...

1:36pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Loviglio: Implied as well with Autism, found 'significant enrichment' both via differential gene exp as well as loop data #ESHG14

1:31pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Loviglio: Data suggested chromatin organization disrupted in a major way ("BRICKS") with the 600kb deletion / amplification #ESHG14

1:28pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Loviglio: They had 600kb duplication and 600kb deletion lines - 2 of each - and normals. Showed interaction in cis 1MB away #ESHG14

1:24pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Loviglio: Idea: higher-order chromatin structure, via 3C methods. They used 4C-Seq based method #ESHG14

1:21pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Loviglio: 600kb duplication underweight, deletion obesity; also macrocephaly / microcephaly symmetry in 16p11.2 region #ESHG14

1:20pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Next: Maria Nicla Loviglio (Lausanne Switzerland): “Chromatin loops and CNVs: the complex spatial organization of the 16p11.2 locus” #ESHG14

1:18pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: They are seeing replications duplications 'everywhere'. 8% of the human genome viral? 'Viral integration sites in host genome' #ESHG14

1:17pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: Showed human mapping; 'now the contiguity is near' cp PacBio v1, existing hg19, theirs #ESHG14

1:14pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: Also showed a loss of one allele; saw 200kb deletion one allele, 70kb deletion other allele. Showed 4x90kb amplification #ESHG14

1:12pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: Taking care of the sample - careful pipetting, showing 9kb vs 13kb difference to hg19 (insertion); uses redundant image info #ESHG14

1:10pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: Shows the irysChip, video of 7base seq motif labeled, can use chemical moiety; 100k - 1MB; stretch in a nanochannel. #ESHG14

1:08pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: Complementary tech. ("Blind spot" is put in Chinese Hanzi on slide - perhaps for a different audience?) #ESHG14

1:05pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cao: 'Irys eliminates the genomic blind spot with long range info'. 200-500bp model of existing NGS. Bionano - minimal sample proc. #ESHG14

1:04pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Next: Han Cao (Bionanogenomics, San Diego USA) “Identification and Analysis of Complex Structural Variation Using Nanochannel Array” #ESHG14

1:01pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: eQTLs can help prioritize risk genes in autoimmune disorders #ESHG14

1:01pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: Looking at trans-eQTLs: SNP is on chr4, but in trans affects a gene on Chr1 and Chr6. Both B-cell reg genes #ESHG14

12:57pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: lncRNAs: >200nt, no ORF, intronic, can be antisense, overlap ORF, can modify chromatin. 'Fn of most lncRNAs are unknown' #ESHG1

12:56pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: Illust. one risk SNP up-regulates one downstream gene but down-regulates three other upstream genes #ESHG14

12:55pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: 50% of the cis-eQTL effect is to a single gene. As many as 6 other genes for other cis-eQTLs. #ESHG14

12:55pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: Found cis-eQTLs vary from 14% - 60%. 1/4 are on n.c. genes. Likely underestimated: these ncRNA are lower exp, tissue-spec #ESHG14

12:53pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: 14 autoimmune diseases; selected 543 risk SNPs; P<5x10^-8; had RNA-seq on 629 PBMCs from 'Lifelines Deep' cohort, others #ESHG1

12:51pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: ILMN Immunochip: a common subset for autoimmune disease-related SNPs. Found non-coding RNA genes enrichmed #ESHG14

12:50pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: 70 GWAS studies, 32 autoimmune diseases; 478 loci identified. Overlap with others. 2014 review: http://t.co/9gSLS6d8Vk #ESHG14

12:49pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Wijmenga: 3 components: disregulation of immune sys; environmental factors; underlying genetic factors (helped by GWAS) #ESHG14

12:47pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Cisca Wijmenga (Univ Groningen, Netherlands): The long non-coding RNA landscape of autoimmune diseases #ESHG14

12:46pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen:Q:How to normalize data? A:Just used PCA, and removed the first one for eQTL. For ASE 'more about ref. bias' as test/individ #ESHG14

12:44pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen: Their next work is to build a public portal. Publishing soon. Slides (Figshare) http://t.co/1Z8YDUN3TT #ESHG14

12:43pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen: Pointed out directional allelic bias. Drilling down, significant ASE results (~45K at MAF >5%) #ESHG14

12:41pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen: But another ~1K add'l eQTL genes from the 'other' set. Pointed out this data is free of charge, 'just lying around' #ESHG14

12:39pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen: Validated eQTLs using Geuvadis samples, 96% validated eQTLs with genotype. 'Other' samples overlap 2.5k with Geuvadis #ESHG14

12:38pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen:PCA analysis, looked at accuracy of genotyped & imputed SNVs, eQTL mapping MAF<0.05, meta-analysis per population #ESHG14

12:37pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Deelen: Aligned 13TB FASQ files of RNA-Seq data from 459 individuals, all LCL lines, genotypes avail; other ~800 samples mixed #ESHG14

12:36pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Patrick Deelen Univ Med Ctr Groningen: Resolving variants of unknown significance through reanalysis of 4,978 public RNA-seq samples #ESHG14

12:34pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Gilissen: Only one inherited causal ID (complex het); no de-novo noncoding mutations discovered ('which was a surprise for us') #ESHG14

12:08pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Gilissen: For ID (intellectual disability), 21/50 got a result that WES failed, reported in de Ligt 2012 http://t.co/2XdH2QbuP1 #ESHG14

12:07pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Gilissen: Another was 60kb duplication on Chr4; but inserted from ChrX, inversion as well. Did breakpoint-span PCR #ESHG14

12:05pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite

Gilissen: Onto de novo structural variation: found a 600bp deletion - but was able to use Sanger to sequence across breakpoint #ESHG14

12:04pm May 31st 2014 via Hootsuite