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Minor allele frequency

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394: 59:. The authors classified the variants found in the study in three classes according to their MAF. It was observed that rare variants (MAF < 0.05) appeared more frequently in coding regions than common variants (MAF > 0.05) in this population. 139: 360: 162: 51:
studies because it provides information to differentiate between common and rare variants in the population. As an example, a 2015 study sequenced the whole
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Hernandez, Ryan D.; Uricchio, Lawrence H.; Hartman, Kevin; Ye, Chun; Dahl, Andrew; Zaitlen, Noah (September 2019).
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is the number of times this SNP has been observed in the population of the study. To find the number, note that
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since MAF variants which occur only once, known as "singletons", drive an enormous amount of selection.
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is the frequency of the C allele (MAF), i.e. 15% within the 1000 Genomes database; and
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Introduce the reference of a SNP of interest, as an example:
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occurs in a given population. They play a surprising role in
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Index

allele
heritability
Single nucleotide polymorphisms
HapMap
population genetics
genomes
Sardinian individuals
rs429358
locus
diploidy
Allele frequency
"Ultrarare variants drive substantial cis heritability of human gene expression"
doi
10.1038/s41588-019-0487-7
ISSN
1546-1718
PMC
6730564
PMID
31477931
"A haplotype map of the human genome"
Bibcode
2005Natur.437.1299T
doi
10.1038/nature04226
PMC
1880871
PMID
16255080
"Genome sequencing elucidates Sardinian genetic architecture and augments association analyses for lipid and blood inflammatory markers"

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