NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium Repository Exome Chip

The Illumina Infinium HumanExome+ BeadChip contains putative functional exonic variants selected from individual exome and whole-genome sequences from diverse populations. It includes nonsynonymous variants, splice variants and stop-altering variants. It also includes tags for previous GWAS-identified loci, ancestry informative markers, markers designed for identity by descent analyses, synonymous variants, fingerprint SNPs common to major genotyping platforms, mitochondrial SNPs, chromosome Y SNPs, and HLA tag SNPs. For more information as well as a detailed description of the variant calling and QC procedures, see Li et al. (2016). Li, D., et al. (2016) A pleiotropic missense variant in SLC39A8 is associated with Crohn's disease and human gut microbiome composition. Gastroenterology, 151, 1-9. PMID: 27492617.]]>
Included are European ancestry patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and unrelated controls (with no family history of IBD) from the NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium Sample Repository. These individuals were recruited by the Consortium's 6 Genetic Research Centers (GRCs) in the U.S. and Canada.]]>