Santosh S. Atanur

Lead author of the structural variant phenome-wide association study

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Structural variant map of 467,152 UK Biobank genomes ties rare DNA rearrangements to disease

First listed author among roughly twenty co-authors from the AstraZeneca Genomics Initiative

AstraZeneca's genomics team has scanned 467,152 UK Biobank genomes for structural variants — the large DNA rearrangements most studies skip — and tied them to disease and blood proteins. It is the largest phenome-wide map of structural variants to date.

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