Publications

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Lin BM, Grinde KE, Brody JA, Breeze CE, Raffield LM, Mychaleckyj JC, Thornton TA, Perry JA, Baier LJ, Fuentes Lde Las, Guo X, Heavner BD, Hanson RL, Hung Y-J, Qian H, Hsiung CA, Hwang S-J, Irvin MR, Jain D, Kelly TN, Kobes S, Lange L, Lash JP, Li Y, Liu X, Mi X, Musani SK, Papanicolaou GJ, Parsa A, Reiner AP, Salimi S, Sheu WH-H, Shuldiner AR, Taylor KD, Smith AV, Smith JA, Tin A, Vaidya D, Wallace RB, Yamamoto K, Sakaue S, Matsuda K, Kamatani Y, Momozawa Y, Yanek LR, Young BA, Zhao W, Okada Y, Abecasis G, Psaty BM, Arnett DK, Boerwinkle E, Cai J, Der Chen IYii-, Correa A, L Cupples A, He J, Kardia SLr, Kooperberg C, Mathias RA, Mitchell BD, Nickerson DA, Turner ST, Vasan RS, Rotter JI, Levy D, Kramer HJ, Köttgen A, Rich SS, Lin D-Y, Browning SR, Franceschini N. Whole genome sequence analyses of eGFR in 23,732 people representing multiple ancestries in the NHLBI trans-omics for precision medicine (TOPMed) consortium. EBioMedicine. 2021 ;63:103157.

Yu B, de Vries PS, Metcalf GA, Wang Z, Feofanova EV, Liu X, Muzny DMarie, Wagenknecht LE, Gibbs RA, Morrison AC, Boerwinkle E. Whole genome sequence analysis of serum amino acid levels. Genome Biol. 2016 ;17(1):237.

de Vries PS, Yu B, Feofanova EV, Metcalf GA, Brown MR, Zeighami AL, Liu X, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC. Whole-genome sequencing study of serum peptide levels: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Hum Mol Genet. 2017 ;26(17):3442-3450.