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Analysis of #LOF variants & 20 risk factor phenotypes in 8.6K individuals identifies loci [both well known & new]
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3270.html

NATURE GENETICS | LETTER

Analysis of loss-of-function variants and 20 risk factor phenotypes in 8,554 individuals identifies loci influencing chronic disease

Alexander H Li,
Alanna C Morrison,
Christie Kovar,
L Adrienne Cupples,
Jennifer A Brody,
Linda M Polfus,
Bing Yu,
Ginger Metcalf,
Donna Muzny,
Narayanan Veeraraghavan,
Xiaoming Liu,
Thomas Lumley,
Thomas H Mosley,
Richard A Gibbs
& Eric Boerwinkle

the "circle of life"

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214001547#

Volume 24, Issue 6, pR238–R240, 17 March 2014

Evolution: Dynamics of De Novo Gene Emergence

Rafik Neme
Diethard Tautz

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.016

Variant Association Tools for Quality Control and Analysis of Large-Scale Sequence and Genotyping Array Data

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(14)00176-1

vs

http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/vat

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140409/ncomms4644/full/ncomms4644.html

From the following article:
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
Nature 409, 860-921(15 February 2001)
doi:10.1038/35057062

Alu age distribution

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6822/fig_tab/409860a0_F18.html