Kelly A. Frazer

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2009

Number

61

Co-Authors

Enrichment of sequencing targets from the human genome by solution hybridization (2009)

Tewhey, Ryan, Nakano, Masakazu, Wang, Xiaoyun, Pabón-Peña, Carlos, Novak, Barbara, Giuffre, Angelica, ...

Abstract To exploit fully the potential of current sequencing technologies for population-based studies, one must enrich for loci from the human genome. Here we evaluate the hybridization-based...

Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies (2009)

Harismendy, Olivier, Ng, Pauline C, Strausberg, Robert L, Wang, Xiaoyun, Stockwell, Timothy B, Beeson, Karen Y, ...

Abstract Background Next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms are currently being utilized for targeted sequencing of candidate genes or genomic intervals to perform sequence-based association...

Genetic determinants of phenotypic diversity in humans (2008)

Rahim, Nazli G, Harismendy, Olivier, Topol, Eric J, Frazer, Kelly A

Abstract New technologies for rapidly assaying DNA sequences have revealed that the degree and nature of human genetic variation is far more complex then previously realized. These same technologies...

A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs (2007)

Frazer, Kelly A., Ballinger, Dennis G., Cox, David R., Hinds, David A., Stuve, Laura L., Gibbs, Richard A., ...

We describe the Phase II HapMap, which characterizes over 3.1 million human single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped in 270 individuals from four geographically diverse populations and...

Allele-Specific KRT1 Expression Is a Complex Trait (2006)

Heng Tao, David R. Cox, Kelly A. Frazer

The differential expression of alleles occurs commonly in humans and is likely an important genetic factor underlying heritable differences in phenotypic traits. Understanding the molecular basis of...

Analysis of allelic differential expression in human white blood cells (2006)

Pant, P.V. Krishna, Tao, Heng, Beilharz, Erica J., Ballinger, Dennis G., Cox, David R., Frazer, Kelly A.

Allelic variation of gene expression is common in humans, and is of interest because of its potential contribution to variation in heritable traits. To identify human genes with allelic expression...

Analysis of allelic differential expression in human white blood cells (2006)

Pant, P.V. Krishna, Tao, Heng, Beilharz, Erica J., Ballinger, Dennis G., Cox, David R., Frazer, Kelly A.

Allelic variation of gene expression is common in humans, and is of interest because of its potential contribution to variation in heritable traits. To identify human genes with allelic expression...

Variation in conserved non-coding sequences on chromosome 5q and susceptibility to asthma and atopy (2005)

Donfack, Joseph, Schneider, Daniel H, Tan, Zheng, Kurz, Thorsten, Dubchak, Inna, Frazer, Kelly A, ...

Abstract Background Evolutionarily conserved sequences likely have biological function. Methods To determine whether variation in conserved sequences in non-coding DNA contributes to risk for human...

Variation in conserved non-coding sequences on chromosome 5q and susceptibility to asthma and atopy (2005)

Donfack, Joseph, Schneider, Daniel H., Tan, Zheng, Kurz, Thorsten, Dubchak, Inna, Frazer, Kelly A., ...

Background: Evolutionarily conserved sequences likely have biological function. Methods: To determine whether variation in conserved sequences in non-coding DNA contributes to risk for human disease,...

The nature, pattern and function of human sequence variation (2004)

Eichler, Evan E, Frazer, Kelly A

Abstract A report on the 2004 Keystone Symposium 'Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease', Breckenridge, USA, 8-13 January 2004.

VISTA - computational tools for comparative genomics (2004)

Frazer, Kelly A., Pachter, Lior, Poliakov, Alexander, Rubin, Edward M., Dubchak, Inna

Comparison of DNA sequences from different species is a fundamental method for identifying functional elements in genomes. Here we describe the VISTA family of tools created to assist biologists in...

VISTA: computational tools for comparative genomics (2004)

Kelly A. Frazer, Lior Pachter, Er Poliakov, Edward M. Rubin, Inna Dubchak

Comparison of DNA sequences from different species is a fundamental method for identifying functional elements in genomes. Here, we describe the VISTA family of tools created to assist biologists in...

Noncoding Sequences Conserved in a Limited Number of Mammals in the SIM2 Interval are Frequently Functional (2004)

Frazer, Kelly A., Tao, Heng, Osoegawa, Kazutoyo, De Jong, Pieter J., Chen, Xiyin, Doherty, Mark F., ...

Cross-species DNA sequence comparison is a fundamental method for identifying biologically important elements, because functional sequences are evolutionarily conserved, wheres nonfunctional...

Segmental Phylogenetic Relationships of Inbred Mouse Strains Revealed by Fine-Scale Analysis of Sequence Variation Across 4.6 Mb of Mouse Genome (2004)

Frazer, Kelly A., Wade, Claire M., Hinds, David A., Patil, Nila, Cox, David R., Daly, Mark J.

High-density SNP screening of panels of inbred mouse strains has been proposed as a method to accelerate the identification of genes associated with complex biomedical phenotypes. To evaluate the...

VISTA: computational tools for comparative genomics (2004)

Frazer, Kelly A., Pachter, Lior, Poliakov, Alexander, Rubin, Edward M., Dubchak, Inna

Comparison of DNA sequences from different species is a fundamental method for identifying functional elements in genomes. Here, we describe the VISTA family of tools created to assist biologists in...

Noncoding Sequences Conserved in a Limited Number of Mammals in the SIM2 Interval are Frequently Functional (2004)

Frazer, Kelly A., Tao, Heng, Osoegawa, Kazutoyo, De Jong, Pieter J., Chen, Xiyin, Doherty, Mark F., ...

Cross-species DNA sequence comparison is a fundamental method for identifying biologically important elements, because functional sequences are evolutionarily conserved, wheres nonfunctional...

Cross-Species Sequence Comparisons: A Review of Methods and Available Resources (2003)

Frazer, Kelly A., Elnitski, Laura, Church, Deanna M., Dubchak, Inna, Hardison, Ross C.

With the availability of whole-genome sequences for an increasing number of species, we are now faced with the challenge of decoding the information contained within these DNA sequences. Comparative...

Genomic DNA Insertions and Deletions Occur Frequently Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates (2003)

Frazer, Kelly A., Chen, Xiyin, Hinds, David A., Pant, P.V. Krishna, Patil, Nila, Cox, David R.

Comparative DNA sequence studies between humans and nonhuman primates will be important for understanding the genetic basis of the phenotypic differences between these species. Here we compare ∼27...

VISTA : visualizing global DNA sequence alignments of arbitrary length (2000)

Mayor, Chris, Brudno, Michael, Schwartz, Jody R., Poliakov, Alexander, Rubin, Edward M., Frazer, Kelly A., ...

Summary: VISTA is a program for visualizing global DNA sequence alignments of arbitrary length. It has a clean output, allowing for easy identification of similarity, and is easily configurable,...

A radiation hybrid map of the region on human chromosome 22 containing the neurofibromatosis type 2 locus (1992)

Frazer, Kelly A., Boehnke, Michael, Budarf, Marcia L., Wolff, Roger K., Emanuel, Beverly S., Myers, Richard M., ...

We describe a high-resolution radiation hybrid map of the region on human chromosome 22 containing the neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) gene. Eighty-five hamster--human somatic cell hybrids generated...

Genomic interval engineering of mice identifies a novel modulator of triglyceride production

Zhu, Yiwen, Jong, Miek C., Frazer, Kelly A., Gong, Elaine, Krauss, Ronald M., Cheng, Jan-Fang, ...

To accelerate the biological annotation of novel genes discovered in sequenced regions of mammalian genomes, we are creating large deletions in the mouse genome targeted to include clusters of such...

PipMaker—A Web Server for Aligning Two Genomic DNA Sequences

Schwartz, Scott, Zhang, Zheng, Frazer, Kelly A., Smit, Arian, Riemer, Cathy, Bouck, John, ...

PipMaker (http://bio.cse.psu.edu) is a World-Wide Web site for comparing two long DNA sequences to identify conserved segments and for producing informative, high-resolution displays of the resulting...

Active Conservation of Noncoding Sequences Revealed by Three-Way Species Comparisons

Dubchak, Inna, Brudno, Michael, Loots, Gabriela G., Pachter, Lior, Mayor, Chris, Rubin, Edward M., ...

Human and mouse genomic sequence comparisons are being increasingly used to search for evolutionarily conserved gene regulatory elements. Large-scale human–mouse DNA comparison studies have...

Evolutionarily Conserved Sequences on Human Chromosome 21

Frazer, Kelly A., Sheehan, John B., Stokowski, Renee P., Chen, Xiyin, Hosseini, Roya, Cheng, Jan-Fang, ...

Comparison of human sequences with the DNA of other mammals is an excellent means of identifying functional elements in the human genome. Here we describe the utility of high-density oligonucleotide...

Noncoding Sequences Conserved in a Limited Number of Mammals in the SIM2 Interval are Frequently Functional

Frazer, Kelly A., Tao, Heng, Osoegawa, Kazutoyo, De Jong, Pieter J., Chen, Xiyin, Doherty, Mark F., ...

Cross-species DNA sequence comparison is a fundamental method for identifying biologically important elements, because functional sequences are evolutionarily conserved, wheres nonfunctional...

The nature, pattern and function of human sequence variation

Eichler, Evan E, Frazer, Kelly A

A report on the 2004 Keystone Symposium 'Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease', Breckenridge, USA, 8-13 January 2004.

Genomic DNA Insertions and Deletions Occur Frequently Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates

Frazer, Kelly A., Chen, Xiyin, Hinds, David A., Pant, P.V. Krishna, Patil, Nila, Cox, David R.

Comparative DNA sequence studies between humans and nonhuman primates will be important for understanding the genetic basis of the phenotypic differences between these species. Here we compare ∼27...

Cross-Species Sequence Comparisons: A Review of Methods and Available Resources

Frazer, Kelly A., Elnitski, Laura, Church, Deanna M., Dubchak, Inna, Hardison, Ross C.

With the availability of whole-genome sequences for an increasing number of species, we are now faced with the challenge of decoding the information contained within these DNA sequences. Comparative...

VISTA: computational tools for comparative genomics

Frazer, Kelly A., Pachter, Lior, Poliakov, Alexander, Rubin, Edward M., Dubchak, Inna

Comparison of DNA sequences from different species is a fundamental method for identifying functional elements in genomes. Here, we describe the VISTA family of tools created to assist biologists in...

Segmental Phylogenetic Relationships of Inbred Mouse Strains Revealed by Fine-Scale Analysis of Sequence Variation Across 4.6 Mb of Mouse Genome

Frazer, Kelly A., Wade, Claire M., Hinds, David A., Patil, Nila, Cox, David R., Daly, Mark J.

High-density SNP screening of panels of inbred mouse strains has been proposed as a method to accelerate the identification of genes associated with complex biomedical phenotypes. To evaluate the...

High-Resolution Whole-Genome Association Study of Parkinson Disease

Maraganore, Demetrius M., De Andrade, Mariza, Lesnick, Timothy G., Strain, Kari J., Farrer, Matthew J., Rocca, Walter A., ...

We performed a two-tiered, whole-genome association study of Parkinson disease (PD). For tier 1, we individually genotyped 198,345 uniformly spaced and informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms...

Allele-Specific KRT1 Expression Is a Complex Trait

Tao, Heng, Cox, David R, Frazer, Kelly A

The differential expression of alleles occurs commonly in humans and is likely an important genetic factor underlying heritable differences in phenotypic traits. Understanding the molecular basis of...

Analysis of allelic differential expression in human white blood cells

Pant, P.V. Krishna, Tao, Heng, Beilharz, Erica J., Ballinger, Dennis G., Cox, David R., Frazer, Kelly A.

Allelic variation of gene expression is common in humans, and is of interest because of its potential contribution to variation in heritable traits. To identify human genes with allelic expression...

Genomic interval engineering of mice identifies a novel modulator of triglyceride production

Zhu, Yiwen, Jong, Miek C., Frazer, Kelly A., Gong, Elaine, Krauss, Ronald M., Cheng, Jan-Fang, ...

To accelerate the biological annotation of novel genes discovered in sequenced regions of mammalian genomes, we are creating large deletions in the mouse genome targeted to include clusters of such...

PipMaker—A Web Server for Aligning Two Genomic DNA Sequences

Schwartz, Scott, Zhang, Zheng, Frazer, Kelly A., Smit, Arian, Riemer, Cathy, Bouck, John, ...

PipMaker (http://bio.cse.psu.edu) is a World-Wide Web site for comparing two long DNA sequences to identify conserved segments and for producing informative, high-resolution displays of the resulting...

Active Conservation of Noncoding Sequences Revealed by Three-Way Species Comparisons

Dubchak, Inna, Brudno, Michael, Loots, Gabriela G., Pachter, Lior, Mayor, Chris, Rubin, Edward M., ...

Human and mouse genomic sequence comparisons are being increasingly used to search for evolutionarily conserved gene regulatory elements. Large-scale human–mouse DNA comparison studies have...

Evolutionarily Conserved Sequences on Human Chromosome 21

Frazer, Kelly A., Sheehan, John B., Stokowski, Renee P., Chen, Xiyin, Hosseini, Roya, Cheng, Jan-Fang, ...

Comparison of human sequences with the DNA of other mammals is an excellent means of identifying functional elements in the human genome. Here we describe the utility of high-density oligonucleotide...

Noncoding Sequences Conserved in a Limited Number of Mammals in the SIM2 Interval are Frequently Functional

Frazer, Kelly A., Tao, Heng, Osoegawa, Kazutoyo, De Jong, Pieter J., Chen, Xiyin, Doherty, Mark F., ...

Cross-species DNA sequence comparison is a fundamental method for identifying biologically important elements, because functional sequences are evolutionarily conserved, wheres nonfunctional...

The nature, pattern and function of human sequence variation

Eichler, Evan E, Frazer, Kelly A

A report on the 2004 Keystone Symposium 'Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease', Breckenridge, USA, 8-13 January 2004.

Genomic DNA Insertions and Deletions Occur Frequently Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates

Frazer, Kelly A., Chen, Xiyin, Hinds, David A., Pant, P.V. Krishna, Patil, Nila, Cox, David R.

Comparative DNA sequence studies between humans and nonhuman primates will be important for understanding the genetic basis of the phenotypic differences between these species. Here we compare ∼27...

Cross-Species Sequence Comparisons: A Review of Methods and Available Resources

Frazer, Kelly A., Elnitski, Laura, Church, Deanna M., Dubchak, Inna, Hardison, Ross C.

With the availability of whole-genome sequences for an increasing number of species, we are now faced with the challenge of decoding the information contained within these DNA sequences. Comparative...

VISTA: computational tools for comparative genomics

Frazer, Kelly A., Pachter, Lior, Poliakov, Alexander, Rubin, Edward M., Dubchak, Inna

Comparison of DNA sequences from different species is a fundamental method for identifying functional elements in genomes. Here, we describe the VISTA family of tools created to assist biologists in...

Segmental Phylogenetic Relationships of Inbred Mouse Strains Revealed by Fine-Scale Analysis of Sequence Variation Across 4.6 Mb of Mouse Genome

Frazer, Kelly A., Wade, Claire M., Hinds, David A., Patil, Nila, Cox, David R., Daly, Mark J.

High-density SNP screening of panels of inbred mouse strains has been proposed as a method to accelerate the identification of genes associated with complex biomedical phenotypes. To evaluate the...

High-Resolution Whole-Genome Association Study of Parkinson Disease

Maraganore, Demetrius M., De Andrade, Mariza, Lesnick, Timothy G., Strain, Kari J., Farrer, Matthew J., Rocca, Walter A., ...

We performed a two-tiered, whole-genome association study of Parkinson disease (PD). For tier 1, we individually genotyped 198,345 uniformly spaced and informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms...

Analysis of allelic differential expression in human white blood cells

Pant, P.V. Krishna, Tao, Heng, Beilharz, Erica J., Ballinger, Dennis G., Cox, David R., Frazer, Kelly A.

Allelic variation of gene expression is common in humans, and is of interest because of its potential contribution to variation in heritable traits. To identify human genes with allelic expression...

Allele-Specific KRT1 Expression Is a Complex Trait

Tao, Heng, Cox, David R, Frazer, Kelly A

The differential expression of alleles occurs commonly in humans and is likely an important genetic factor underlying heritable differences in phenotypic traits. Understanding the molecular basis of...

In Vitro Human Keratinocyte Migration Rates Are Associated with SNPs in the KRT1 Interval

Tao, Heng, Berno, Anthony J., Cox, David R., Frazer, Kelly A.

Efforts to develop effective therapeutic treatments for promoting fast wound healing after injury to the epidermis are hindered by a lack of understanding of the factors involved....

Genetic determinants of phenotypic diversity in humans

Rahim, Nazli G, Harismendy, Olivier, Topol, Eric J, Frazer, Kelly A

New techniques are enabling the identification of genetic variants underlying complex diseases and phenotypic traits.

Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies

Harismendy, Olivier, Ng, Pauline C, Strausberg, Robert L, Wang, Xiaoyun, Stockwell, Timothy B, Beeson, Karen Y, ...

Human sequence generated from three next-generation sequencing platforms reveals systematic variability in sequence coverage due to local sequence characteristics.