FAVR (Filtering and Annotation of Variants that are Rare): methods to facilitate the analysis of rare germline genetic variants from massively parallel sequencing datasets

Bernard J Pope; Nguyen-Dumont Tu; Fabrice Odefrey; Fleur Hammet; Russell Bell; Kayoko Tao; Sean V Tavtigian; David E Goldgar; Andrew Lonie; Melissa C Southey; Daniel J Park

Journal article

FAVR (Filtering and Annotation of Variants that are Rare): methods to facilitate the analysis of rare germline genetic variants from massively parallel sequencing datasets

Bernard J Pope, Nguyen-Dumont Tu, Fabrice Odefrey, Fleur Hammet, Russell Bell, Kayoko Tao, Sean V Tavtigian, David E Goldgar, Andrew Lonie, Melissa C Southey, Daniel J Park

BMC BIOINFORMATICS | BIOMED CENTRAL LTD | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-65

University of Melbourne Researchers

Tu Nguyen Author Clinical Pathology

Bernie Pope Author Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

David Goldgar Author Clinical Pathology

Melissa Southey Author Clinical Pathology

Daniel Park Author Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Cancer Council Victoria (Grant ID 628774) and National Institute of Health, R01CA155767, The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; Grant ID 466668 and APP1025145) and by a Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) grant number VR0053 on its Peak Computing Facility at the University of Melbourne, an initiative of the Victorian Government. MCS is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium (VBCRC) Group Leader. TN-D is a Susan G. Komen for the Cure Postdoctoral Fellow.