James Emery

Exploring penetrance of clinically relevant variants in over 800,000 humans from the Genome Aggregation Database

The paper analyzes over 800,000 human genomes to assess penetrance of clinically relevant variants, finding that 95% of pLoF variants in severe diseases have explanations for lack of disease manifestation.

A genome-wide mutational constraint map quantified from variation in 76,156 human genomes

Rare-variant depletion in 1kb windows of 76,156 gnomAD genomes, versus feature-adjusted mutation expectations, marks regulatory elements and outperforms seven alternative scores at flagging functional non-coding variants.

Inferring compound heterozygosity from large-scale exome sequencing data

The paper develops a method to infer compound heterozygosity from exome sequencing data, achieving high accuracy in phasing rare variants for recessive disease diagnosis.

Cost-efficient whole genome-sequencing using novel mostly natural sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry and open fluidics platform

Open flow cell on a circular wafer with mostly natural nucleotides and no reversible terminators: about 300 bp reads at $1/Gb, 99.6% SNP accuracy on reference human genomes.

Mitochondrial DNA variation across 56,434 individuals in gnomAD

The paper presents a pipeline to call mitochondrial DNA variants in gnomAD, reporting population frequencies for 10,850 unique mtDNA variants across 56,434 individuals.