An abundance of rare functional variants in 202 drug target genes sequenced in 14,002 people.

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Published in Science on May 17, 2012

Authors

Matthew R Nelson1, Daniel Wegmann, Margaret G Ehm, Darren Kessner, Pamela St Jean, Claudio Verzilli, Judong Shen, Zhengzheng Tang, Silviu-Alin Bacanu, Dana Fraser, Liling Warren, Jennifer Aponte, Matthew Zawistowski, Xiao Liu, Hao Zhang, Yong Zhang, Jun Li, Yun Li, Li Li, Peter Woollard, Simon Topp, Matthew D Hall, Keith Nangle, Jun Wang, Gonçalo Abecasis, Lon R Cardon, Sebastian Zöllner, John C Whittaker, Stephanie L Chissoe, John Novembre, Vincent Mooser

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Quantitative Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. matthew.r.nelson@gsk.com

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