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Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

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Our study extends previous efforts by identifying and characterizing the rare variants that comprise the majority of human genomic variation7,10–12. Rare variants represent recent and potentially deleterious changes that can affect protein function, gene expression or other biologically important elements11,13,14.