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William J. Brands

University Medical Center UtrechtORCID 0000-0002-7134-7584Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Genetics· 1

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1

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Ahmad Al KhleifatiD· 2 shared Aleksey ShatunoviD· 2 shared Ammar Al‐ChalabiiD· 2 shared Christopher E. ShawiD· 2 shared Gijs H.P. Tazelaar· 2 shared Jan Herman VeldinkiD· 2 shared Joke J.F.A. van VugtiD· 2 shared Karen E. MorrisoniD· 2 shared

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GeneticsEuropean Journal of Human GeneticsPeer-reviewedJun 28, 2018

Project MinE: study design and pilot analyses of a large-scale whole-genome sequencing study in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Wouter van Rheenen, Sara L. Pulit, Annelot M. Dekker…·Jan Herman Veldink

Project MinE analyzes whole-genome sequencing data from ALS patients and controls to study genetic variation and its implications for disease susceptibility.

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BioinformaticsGenome ResearchPeer-reviewedNov 1, 2017

Detection of long repeat expansions from PCR-free whole-genome sequence data

Egor Dolzhenko, Joke J.F.A. van Vugt, Richard J. Shaw…·Michael A. Eberle

The paper introduces ExpansionHunter, a tool for detecting long repeat expansions from PCR-free WGS data, achieving high sensitivity and specificity in identifying pathogenic expansions.

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humanwhole-genome sequencing

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