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Screening for Functional Non-coding Genetic Variants Using Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay (EMSA) and DNA-affinity Precipitation Assay (DAPA)
Published on: August 21, 2016
A systematic approach to understand the functional consequences of non-protein coding risk regions
Gerhard A Coetzee1, Li Jia, Baruch Frenkel
1Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. coetzee@usc.edu
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A primary goal of genetic association studies is to elucidate genes and novel biological mechanisms involved in disease. Recently, genome-wide association studies have identified many common genetic variants that are significantly associated with complex diseases such as cancer. In contrast to Mendelian disorders, a sizable fraction of the variants lies outside known protein-coding regions; therefore, understanding their biological consequences presents a major challenge in human genetics. Here we describe an integrated framework to allow non-protein coding loci to be annotated with respect to regulatory functions. This will facilitate identification of target genes as well as prioritize variants for functional testing.
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