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Rare variant (genetics)
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<h2 id="methods-of-discovery">Methods of discovery</h2> <p>Some methods, such as genetic burden tests, have been specifically developed to study genetic association of rare variants.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> These methods aggregate rare variants over genetic regions, such as genes or whole pathways, and evaluate cumulative effects of multiple genetic variants. These methods may increase power when multiple variants in the region are associated with a disease or a trait. In addition, compared to a <a href="/facts/Genome-wide_association_study/qemSYa3a">genome-wide association study</a>, a region or gene based test performs much fewer tests resulting in a less stringent multiple-hypothesis correction than the <a href="/facts/Genome-wide_significance/4IeloWqk">genome-wide significance</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> Some examples of these methods are SKAT,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> SKAT-O,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> ARIEL test,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> aSUM<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> and STAAR.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> <a href="/facts/SNP_annotation/lpyCAIVR">SNP annotations</a> help to prioritize rare functional variants, and incorporating these annotations can effectively boost the power of genetic association of rare variants analysis of <a href="/facts/Exome_sequencing/kTvyt9Nc">whole exome</a> and <a href="/facts/Whole_genome_sequencing/WNuHaU2K">whole genome sequencing</a> studies.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Allele_frequency/gRApYaIy">Allele frequency</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Functional_genomics/mtKeSgSs">Functional genomics</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Genetic_drift/lvoEEctX">Genetic drift</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/SNP_annotation/lpyCAIVR">SNP annotation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Exome_sequencing/kTvyt9Nc">Whole exome sequencing</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Whole_genome_sequencing/WNuHaU2K">Whole genome sequencing</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v498/n7453/fig_tab/nature12170_F1.html">Association analyses of discovered rare functional variants in autoimmune diseases</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0676-4">Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01641-w">STAARpipeline: an all-in-one rare-variant tool for biobank-scale whole-genome sequencing data</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/4001728">Support for the association between the rare functional variant I425V of the serotonin transporter gene and susceptibility to obsessive compulsive disorder</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Erjavec SO, Gelfman S, Abdelaziz AR, Lee EY, Monga I, Alkelai A, Ionita-Laza I, Petukhova L, Christiano AM (Feb 2022). 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