Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Author "Cassa, Christopher"

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    • Automated Validation Of Genetic Variants From Large Databases: Ensuring That Variant References Refer To The Same Genomic Locations 

      Tong, Mark Y.; Cassa, Christopher Anthony; Kohane, Isaac Samuel (Oxford University Press, 2011)
      Accurate annotations of genomic variants are necessary to achieve full-genome clinical interpretations that are scientifically sound and medically relevant. Many disease associations, especially those reported before the ...

    • Dominance of Deleterious Alleles Controls the Response to a Population Bottleneck 

      Balick, Daniel J.; Do, Ron; Cassa, Christopher A.; Reich, David; Sunyaev, Shamil R. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Population bottlenecks followed by re-expansions have been common throughout history of many populations. The response of alleles under selection to such demographic perturbations has been a subject of great interest in ...

    • Evidence for secondary-variant genetic burden and non-random distribution across biological modules in a recessive ciliopathy 

      Kousi, Maria; Söylemez, Onuralp; Ozanturk, Aysegül; Akle, Sebastian; Jungreis, Irwin; Muller, Jean-Francois; Cassa, Christopher; Brand, Harrison; Mokry, Jill Anne; Wolf, Maxim; Sadeghpour, Azita; McFadden, Kelsey; Lewis, Richard A.; Talkowski, Michael; Dollfus, Hélène; Kellis, Manolis; Davis, Erica E.; Sunyaev, Shamil; Katsanis, Nicholas (SpringerNature, 2018-07-05)
      The influence of genetic background on driver mutations is well established; however, the mechanisms by which the background interacts with Mendelian loci remains unclear. We performed a systematic secondary-variant burden ...

    • An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge 

      Brownstein, Catherine A; Beggs, Alan H; Homer, Nils; Merriman, Barry; Yu, Timothy W; Flannery, Katherine C; DeChene, Elizabeth T; Towne, Meghan C; Savage, Sarah K; Price, Emily N; Holm, Ingrid A; Luquette, Lovelace J; Lyon, Elaine; Majzoub, Joseph; Neupert, Peter; McCallie Jr, David; Szolovits, Peter; Willard, Huntington F; Mendelsohn, Nancy J; Temme, Renee; Finkel, Richard S; Yum, Sabrina W; Medne, Livija; Sunyaev, Shamil R; Adzhubey, Ivan; Cassa, Christopher A; de Bakker, Paul IW; Duzkale, Hatice; Dworzyński, Piotr; Fairbrother, William; Francioli, Laurent; Funke, Birgit H; Giovanni, Monica A; Handsaker, Robert E; Lage, Kasper; Lebo, Matthew S; Lek, Monkol; Leshchiner, Ignaty; MacArthur, Daniel G; McLaughlin, Heather M; Murray, Michael F; Pers, Tune H; Polak, Paz P; Raychaudhuri, Soumya; Rehm, Heidi L; Soemedi, Rachel; Stitziel, Nathan O; Vestecka, Sara; Supper, Jochen; Gugenmus, Claudia; Klocke, Bernward; Hahn, Alexander; Schubach, Max; Menzel, Mortiz; Biskup, Saskia; Freisinger, Peter; Deng, Mario; Braun, Martin; Perner, Sven; Smith, Richard JH; Andorf, Janeen L; Huang, Jian; Ryckman, Kelli; Sheffield, Val C; Stone, Edwin M; Bair, Thomas; Black-Ziegelbein, E Ann; Braun, Terry A; Darbro, Benjamin; DeLuca, Adam P; Kolbe, Diana L; Scheetz, Todd E; Shearer, Aiden E; Sompallae, Rama; Wang, Kai; Bassuk, Alexander G; Edens, Erik; Mathews, Katherine; Moore, Steven A; Shchelochkov, Oleg A; Trapane, Pamela; Bossler, Aaron; Campbell, Colleen A; Heusel, Jonathan W; Kwitek, Anne; Maga, Tara; Panzer, Karin; Wassink, Thomas; Van Daele, Douglas; Azaiez, Hela; Booth, Kevin; Meyer, Nic; Segal, Michael M; Williams, Marc S; Tromp, Gerard; White, Peter; Corsmeier, Donald; Fitzgerald-Butt, Sara; Herman, Gail; Lamb-Thrush, Devon; McBride, Kim L; Newsom, David; Pierson, Christopher R; Rakowsky, Alexander T; Maver, Aleš; Lovrečić, Luca; Palandačić, Anja; Peterlin, Borut; Torkamani, Ali; Wedell, Anna; Huss, Mikael; Alexeyenko, Andrey; Lindvall, Jessica M; Magnusson, Måns; Nilsson, Daniel; Stranneheim, Henrik; Taylan, Fulya; Gilissen, Christian; Hoischen, Alexander; van Bon, Bregje; Yntema, Helger; Nelen, Marcel; Zhang, Weidong; Sager, Jason; Zhang, Lu; Blair, Kathryn; Kural, Deniz; Cariaso, Michael; Lennon, Greg G; Javed, Asif; Agrawal, Saloni; Ng, Pauline C; Sandhu, Komal S; Krishna, Shuba; Veeramachaneni, Vamsi; Isakov, Ofer; Halperin, Eran; Friedman, Eitan; Shomron, Noam; Glusman, Gustavo; Roach, Jared C; Caballero, Juan; Cox, Hannah C; Mauldin, Denise; Ament, Seth A; Rowen, Lee; Richards, Daniel R; Lucas, F Anthony San; Gonzalez-Garay, Manuel L; Caskey, C Thomas; Bai, Yu; Huang, Ying; Fang, Fang; Zhang, Yan; Wang, Zhengyuan; Barrera, Jorge; Garcia-Lobo, Juan M; González-Lamuño, Domingo; Llorca, Javier; Rodriguez, Maria C; Varela, Ignacio; Reese, Martin G; De La Vega, Francisco M; Kiruluta, Edward; Cargill, Michele; Hart, Reece K; Sorenson, Jon M; Lyon, Gholson J; Stevenson, David A; Bray, Bruce E; Moore, Barry M; Eilbeck, Karen; Yandell, Mark; Zhao, Hongyu; Hou, Lin; Chen, Xiaowei; Yan, Xiting; Chen, Mengjie; Li, Cong; Yang, Can; Gunel, Murat; Li, Peining; Kong, Yong; Alexander, Austin C; Albertyn, Zayed I; Boycott, Kym M; Bulman, Dennis E; Gordon, Paul MK; Innes, A Micheil; Knoppers, Bartha M; Majewski, Jacek; Marshall, Christian R; Parboosingh, Jillian S; Sawyer, Sarah L; Samuels, Mark E; Schwartzentruber, Jeremy; Kohane, Isaac S; Margulies, David M (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: There is tremendous potential for genome sequencing to improve clinical diagnosis and care once it becomes routinely accessible, but this will require formalizing research methods into clinical best practices ...

    • My Sister's Keeper?: Genomic Research and the Identifiability of Siblings 

      Cassa, Christopher Anthony; Schmidt, Brian; Kohane, Isaac Samuel; Mandl, Kenneth David (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Genomic sequencing of SNPs is increasingly prevalent, though the amount of familial information these data contain has not been quantified. Methods: We provide a framework for measuring the risk to siblings of ...

    • Re-Identification of Home Addresses from Spatial Locations Anonymized by Gaussian Skew 

      Cassa, Christopher Anthony; Wieland, Shannon C.; Mandl, Kenneth David (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Knowledge of the geographical locations of individuals is fundamental to the practice of spatial epidemiology. One approach to preserving the privacy of individual-level addresses in a data set is to de-identify ...

    • A software tool for creating simulated outbreaks to benchmark surveillance systems 

      Cassa, Christopher Anthony; Iancu, Karin; Olson, Karen Lea; Mandl, Kenneth David (BioMed Central, 2005)
      Background: Evaluating surveillance systems for the early detection of bioterrorism is particularly challenging when systems are designed to detect events for which there are few or no historical examples. One approach to ...

    • An Unsupervised Classification Method for Inferring Original Case Locations from Low-Resolution Disease Maps 

      Brownstein, John Samuel; Cassa, Christopher Anthony; Kohane, Isaac Samuel; Mandl, Kenneth David (BioMed Central, 2006)
      Background: Widespread availability of geographic information systems software has facilitated the use of disease mapping in academia, government and private sector. Maps that display the address of affected patients are ...