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How global data sharing helped uncover the cause of a rare genetic disorder
1. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
How global data sharing helped uncover
the cause of a rare genetic disorder
D ina Zielinski
As s oc iate Sc ientis t
Er lic h lab
A girl in Israel,
a cousin in Philly,
and a lab in Georgia
6. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
Finding a causal mutation: a numbers game
Whole genome = 3.1billion base pairs
Exome = 30 million base pairs
Public databases
~20,000-30,000 variants
Causal mutation
8. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
Public databases
~20,000-30,000 variants
Familial variants
9. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
-1 in 5,600-20,000 births
-Highly heterogeneous
-Complex pathogenesis
Goldenhar Syndrome
10. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
Focus only on familial regions
chromosome
shared segments
11. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
Finding a causal mutation
Exome = 30 million base pairs
Public databases
~20,000-30,000 variants
Familial variants
12. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
“Happy families are all alike;
each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.”
25. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
29,000 genomes and counting!
genealogy
crowd sourcing
data sharing
26. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
If it takes a village to raise a child…
…it takes the world to help a child with
a genetic disorder
27. Yaniv Erlich14 September 2016 @dinazielinski
Acknowledgements
DNA Land
Yaniv Erlich
Joe Pickrell
Assaf Gordon
Jie Yuan
Tristan Hayeck
Richard Munoz
Mary Wahl
Kevin Shi
Nathan Pearson
Robert Aboukhalil Funding
Burroughs Wellcome Career Award
Broad Institute SPARC Award
Andria and Paul Heafy
Whitehead Institute
Goldenhar Syndrome
Barak Marcus
Mona Sheikh
Balaji Srinivasan
Clement Chu
Melissa Gymrek
Dror Aizenbud
Editor's Notes
Our story starts in Israel with a girl named Ariela
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The mutation was not found in 128 AJ controls from TAGC