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Table 1 Summary of the filtering to narrow down the candidates for the causal variant

From: Exome sequencing identifies a novel missense variant in RRM2B associated with autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia

Criteria for the filtering

Number of remaining variants

Coding variants

19, 215

Not in dbSNP130

2, 015

Not in eight HapMap exomes [12]

1, 833

Not in in-house data of a healthy Japanese individual

1, 336

Functional (missense, nonsense, frameshift and splice site)

592

In run-of-homozygosity regions

35 (in 33 genes)

  1. The filtering was performed using the listed criteria in descending order.