Publications

Brody JA, Morrison AC, Bis JC, O'Connell JR, Brown MR, Huffman JE, Ames DC, Carroll A, Conomos MP, Gabriel S, Gibbs RA, Gogarten SM, Gupta N, Jaquish CE, Johnson AD, Lewis JP, Liu X, Manning AK, Papanicolaou GJ, Pitsillides AN, Rice KM, Salerno W, Sitlani CM, Smith NL, Heckbert SR, Laurie CC, Mitchell BD, Vasan RS, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wilson JG, Boerwinkle E, Psaty BM, L Cupples A. Analysis commons, a team approach to discovery in a big-data environment for genetic epidemiology. Nat Genet. 2017 ;49(11):1560-1563.

Li AH, Morrison AC, Kovar C, L Cupples A, Brody JA, Polfus LM, Yu B, Metcalf G, Muzny D, Veeraraghavan N, Liu X, Lumley T, Mosley TH, Gibbs RA, Boerwinkle E. Analysis of loss-of-function variants and 20 risk factor phenotypes in 8,554 individuals identifies loci influencing chronic disease. Nat Genet. 2015 ;47(6):640-2.

Bis JC, DeStefano A, Liu X, Brody JA, Choi SHoan, Verhaaren BFJ, Debette S, M Ikram A, Shahar E, Butler KR, Gottesman RF, Muzny D, Kovar CL, Psaty BM, Hofman A, Lumley T, Gupta M, Wolf PA, van Duijn C, Gibbs RA, Mosley TH, Longstreth WT, Boerwinkle E, Seshadri S, Fornage M. Associations of NINJ2 sequence variants with incident ischemic stroke in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium. PLoS One. 2014 ;9(6):e99798.

Dong C, Wei P, Jian X, Gibbs R, Boerwinkle E, Wang K, Liu X. Comparison and integration of deleteriousness prediction methods for nonsynonymous SNVs in whole exome sequencing studies. Hum Mol Genet. 2015 ;24(8):2125-37.

Liu X, Jian X, Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP: a lightweight database of human nonsynonymous SNPs and their functional predictions. Hum Mutat. 2011 ;32(8):894-9.

Liu X, Jian X, Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP v2.0: a database of human non-synonymous SNVs and their functional predictions and annotations. Hum Mutat. 2013 ;34(9):E2393-402.

Liu X, Wu C, Li C, Boerwinkle E. dbNSFP v3.0: A One-Stop Database of Functional Predictions and Annotations for Human Nonsynonymous and Splice-Site SNVs. Hum Mutat. 2016 ;37(3):235-41.

Coventry A, Bull-Otterson LM, Liu X, Clark AG, Maxwell TJ, Crosby J, Hixson JE, Rea TJ, Muzny DM, Lewis LR, Wheeler DA, Sabo A, Lusk C, Weiss KG, Akbar H, Cree A, Hawes AC, Newsham I, Varghese RT, Villasana D, Gross S, Joshi V, Santibanez J, Morgan M, Chang K, Iv WHale, Templeton AR, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Sing CF. Deep resequencing reveals excess rare recent variants consistent with explosive population growth. Nat Commun. 2010 ;1:131.

Chen H, Huffman JE, Brody JA, Wang C, Lee S, Li Z, Gogarten SM, Sofer T, Bielak LF, Bis JC, Blangero J, Bowler RP, Cade BE, Cho MH, Correa A, Curran JE, de Vries PS, Glahn DC, Guo X, Johnson AD, Kardia S, Kooperberg C, Lewis JP, Liu X, Mathias RA, Mitchell BD, O'Connell JR, Peyser PA, Post WS, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Smith JA, Vasan RS, Wilson JG, Yanek LR, Redline S, Smith NL, Boerwinkle E, Borecki IB, L Cupples A, Laurie CC, Morrison AC, Rice KM, Lin X. Efficient Variant Set Mixed Model Association Tests for Continuous and Binary Traits in Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 ;104(2):260-274.

Liu X, Fu Y-X, Maxwell TJ, Boerwinkle E. Estimating population genetic parameters and comparing model goodness-of-fit using DNA sequences with error. Genome Res. 2010 ;20(1):101-9.

Huang J, Wang K, Wei P, Liu X, Liu X, Tan K, Boerwinkle E, Potash JB, Han S. FLAGS: A Flexible and Adaptive Association Test for Gene Sets Using Summary Statistics. Genetics. 2016 ;202(3):919-29.

Li Q, Liu X, Gibbs RA, Boerwinkle E, Polychronakos C, Qu H-Q. Gene-specific function prediction for non-synonymous mutations in monogenic diabetes genes. PLoS One. 2014 ;9(8):e104452.

Li C, Grove ML, Yu B, Jones BC, Morrison A, Boerwinkle E, Liu X. Genetic variants in microRNA genes and targets associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors in the African-American population. Hum Genet. 2018 ;137(1):85-94.

Yazdani A, Yazdani A, Liu X, Boerwinkle E. Identification of Rare Variants in Metabolites of the Carnitine Pathway by Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis. Genet Epidemiol. 2016 ;40(6):486-91.

Jian X, Boerwinkle E, Liu X. In silico tools for splicing defect prediction: a survey from the viewpoint of end users. Genet Med. 2014 ;16(7):497-503.

Liu X, Maxwell TJ, Boerwinkle E, Fu Y-X. Inferring population mutation rate and sequencing error rate using the SNP frequency spectrum in a sample of DNA sequences. Mol Biol Evol. 2009 ;26(7):1479-90.

Feng Y, Ge X, Meng L, Scull J, Li J, Tian X, Zhang T, Jin W, Cheng H, Wang X, Tokita M, Liu P, Mei H, Wang Y, Li F, Schmitt ES, Zhang WV, Muzny DM, Wen S, Chen Z, Yang Y, Beaudet AL, Liu X, Eng CM, Xia F, Wong L-J, Zhang J. The next generation of population-based spinal muscular atrophy carrier screening: comprehensive pan-ethnic SMN1 copy-number and sequence variant analysis by massively parallel sequencing. Genet Med. 2017 ;19(8):936-944.

Liu X, Li C, Boerwinkle E. The performance of deleteriousness prediction scores for rare non-protein-changing single nucleotide variants in human genes. J Med Genet. 2017 ;54(2):134-144.

Floyd JS, Bloch KM, Brody JA, Maroteau C, Siddiqui MK, Gregory R, Carr DF, Molokhia M, Liu X, Bis JC, Ahmed A, Liu X, Hallberg P, Yue Q-Y, Magnusson PKE, Brisson D, Wiggins KL, Morrison AC, Khoury E, McKeigue P, Stricker BH, Lapeyre-Mestre M, Heckbert SR, Gallagher AM, Chinoy H, Gibbs RA, Bondon-Guitton E, Tracy R, Boerwinkle E, Gaudet D, Conforti A, van Staa T, Sitlani CM, Rice KM, van der Zee A-HMaitland-, Wadelius M, Morris AP, Pirmohamed M, Palmer CAN, Psaty BM, Alfirevic A. Pharmacogenomics of statin-related myopathy: Meta-analysis of rare variants from whole-exome sequencing. PLoS One. 2019 ;14(6):e0218115.

Yu F, Lu J, Liu X, Gazave E, Chang D, Raj S, Hunter-Zinck H, Blekhman R, Arbiza L, Van Hout C, Morrison A, Johnson AD, Bis J, L Cupples A, Psaty BM, Muzny D, Yu J, Gibbs RA, Keinan A, Clark AG, Boerwinkle E. Population genomic analysis of 962 whole genome sequences of humans reveals natural selection in non-coding regions. PLoS One. 2015 ;10(3):e0121644.

Xue C, Raveendran M, R Harris A, Fawcett GL, Liu X, White S, Dahdouli M, Deiros DRio, Below JE, Salerno W, Cox L, Fan G, Ferguson B, Horvath J, Johnson Z, Kanthaswamy S, H Kubisch M, Liu D, Platt M, Smith DG, Sun B, Vallender EJ, Wang F, Wiseman RW, Chen R, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Yu F, Rogers J. The population genomics of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) based on whole-genome sequences. Genome Res. 2016 ;26(12):1651-1662.

Morrison AC, Huang Z, Yu B, Metcalf G, Liu X, Ballantyne C, Coresh J, Yu F, Muzny D, Feofanova E, Rustagi N, Gibbs R, Boerwinkle E. Practical Approaches for Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of Heart- and Blood-Related Traits. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 ;100(2):205-215.

Xue C, Rustagi N, Liu X, Raveendran M, Harris RA, Venkata MGorentla, Rogers J, Yu F. Reduced meiotic recombination in rhesus macaques and the origin of the human recombination landscape. PLoS One. 2020 ;15(8):e0236285.

Feofanova EV, Yu B, Metcalf GA, Liu X, Muzny DM, Below JE, Wagenknecht LE, Gibbs RA, Morrison AC, Boerwinkle E. Sequence-Based Analysis of Lipid-Related Metabolites in a Multiethnic Study. Genetics. 2018 ;209(2):607-616.

Taliun D, Harris DN, Kessler MD, Carlson J, Szpiech ZA, Torres R, Taliun SAGagliano, Corvelo A, Gogarten SM, Kang HMin, Pitsillides AN, LeFaive J, Lee S-B, Tian X, Browning BL, Das S, Emde A-K, Clarke WE, Loesch DP, Shetty AC, Blackwell TW, Smith AV, Wong Q, Liu X, Conomos MP, Bobo DM, Aguet F, Albert C, Alonso A, Ardlie KG, Arking DE, Aslibekyan S, Auer PL, Barnard J, R Barr G, Barwick L, Becker LC, Beer RL, Benjamin EJ, Bielak LF, Blangero J, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Brody JA, Burchard EG, Cade BE, Casella JF, Chalazan B, Chasman DI, Chen Y-DIda, Cho MH, Choi SHoan, Chung MK, Clish CB, Correa A, Curran JE, Custer B, Darbar D, Daya M, de Andrade M, DeMeo DL, Dutcher SK, Ellinor PT, Emery LS, Eng C, Fatkin D, Fingerlin T, Forer L, Fornage M, Franceschini N, Fuchsberger C, Fullerton SM, Germer S, Gladwin MT, Gottlieb DJ, Guo X, Hall ME, He J, Heard-Costa NL, Heckbert SR, Irvin MR, Johnsen JM, Johnson AD, Kaplan R, Kardia SLR, Kelly T, Kelly S, Kenny EE, Kiel DP, Klemmer R, Konkle BA, Kooperberg C, Köttgen A, Lange LA, Lasky-Su J, Levy D, Lin X, Lin K-H, Liu C, Loos RJF, Garman L, Gerszten R, Lubitz SA, Lunetta KL, C Y Mak A, Manichaikul A, Manning AK, Mathias RA, McManus DD, McGarvey ST, Meigs JB, Meyers DA, Mikulla JL, Minear MA, Mitchell BD, Mohanty S, Montasser ME, Montgomery C, Morrison AC, Murabito JM, Natale A, Natarajan P, Nelson SC, North KE, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Pankratz N, Peloso GM, Peyser PA, Pleiness J, Post WS, Psaty BM, Rao DC, Redline S, Reiner AP, Roden D, Rotter JI, Ruczinski I, Sarnowski C, Schoenherr S, Schwartz DA, Seo J-S, Seshadri S, Sheehan VA, Sheu WH, M Shoemaker B, Smith NL, Smith JA, Sotoodehnia N, Stilp AM, Tang W, Taylor KD, Telen M, Thornton TA, Tracy RP, Van Den Berg DJ, Vasan RS, Viaud-Martinez KA, Vrieze S, Weeks DE, Weir BS, Weiss ST, Weng L-C, Willer CJ, Zhang Y, Zhao X, Arnett DK, Ashley-Koch AE, Barnes KC, Boerwinkle E, Gabriel S, Gibbs RA, Rice KM, Rich SS, Silverman EK, Qasba P, Gan W, Papanicolaou GJ, Nickerson DA, Browning SR, Zody MC, Zöllner S, Wilson JG, L Cupples A, Laurie CC, Jaquish CE, Hernandez RD, O'Connor TD, Abecasis GR. Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program. Nature. 2021 ;590(7845):290-299.