The burden of deleterious variants in a non-human primate biomedical model
Vasily E. Ramensky, Anna J. Jasinska, Sandeep Deverasetty, Hannes Svardal, Ivette Zelaya, Matthew J. Jorgensen, Jay R. Kaplan, J. Mark Cline, Anastasia A. Zharikova, Susan K. Service, Richard K. Wilson, Giovanni Coppola, Nelson B. Freimer, Wesley C. Warren
The paper identifies homozygous protein-truncating variants in vervet monkeys using whole genome sequencing and explores their potential impact on early infant mortality.
bioRxiv · Sep 27, 2019 · PreprintGenetics