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We now have adapted our preprint archive, Nature Precedings, to host project descriptions, community standards papers and funder policies. Citable project descriptions provide a guide to the resources available and create a mechanism to give data producers citation credit.
A group of medical geneticists from the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea are seeking support for an enduring cooperative research structure. Their research productivity and ability to collaborate are both proven. The expected value of the proposed organization is high.
Analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) show that common SNPs can account for the majority of the heritability of complex traits, but that there are likely to be limits to the usefulness of the current strategy of accumulating common variants of small effect for risk prediction. The ongoing success of GWAS has implications for functional characterization of trait-associated loci.
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Recent agreement on stable reference sequences for reporting human genetic variants now allows us to mandate the use of the allele naming conventions developed by the Human Genome Variation Society.