An evolving understanding of multiple causal variants underlying genetic association signals

E Long, J Williams, H Zhang, J Choi - The American Journal of Human …, 2025 - cell.com
Understanding how genetic variation contributes to phenotypic variation is a fundamental
question in genetics. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have discovered …

MaveDB 2024: a curated community database with over seven million variant effects from multiplexed functional assays

AF Rubin, J Stone, AH Bianchi, BJ Capodanno, EY Da… - Genome Biology, 2025 - Springer
Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are a critical tool for researchers and clinicians
to understand genetic variants. Here we describe the 2024 update to MaveDB (https://www …

Calibration of additional computational tools expands ClinGen recommendation options for variant classification with PP3/BP4 criteria

T Bergquist, SL Stenton, EAW Nadeau, MU Sheth, WL Qiu, XR Ma, AR Gschwind, E Jagoda… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Map** enhancers and their target genes in specific cell types is crucial for understanding
gene regulation and human disease genetics. However, accurately predicting enhancer …

Using individual barcodes to increase quantification power of massively parallel reporter assays

P Keukeleire, JD Rosen, A Göbel-Knapp, K Salomon… - BMC …, 2025 - Springer
Background Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) are an experimental technology for
measuring the activity of thousands of candidate regulatory sequences or their variants in …

Integrating Common and Rare Variants Improves Polygenic Risk Prediction Across Diverse Populations

J Williams, T Chen, X Hua, W Wong, K Yu, P Kraft, X Li… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) predict complex traits by aggregating genetic effects across the
genome, yet most models focus on common variants, overlooking rare variants that may …

GREGoR: Accelerating Genomics for Rare Diseases

M Dawood, B Heavner, MM Wheeler, RA Ungar… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Rare diseases are collectively common, affecting approximately one in twenty individuals
worldwide. In recent years, rapid progress has been made in rare disease diagnostics due …

On neural networks as infinite tree-structured probabilistic graphical models

B Li, AJ Thomson, MM Engelhard, D Page - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) lack the precise semantics and definitive probabilistic
interpretation of probabilistic graphical models (PGMs). In this paper, we propose an …

Causal modeling of gene effects from regulators to programs to traits: integration of genetic associations and Perturb-seq

M Ota, JP Spence, T Zeng, E Dann, A Marson… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Genetic association studies provide a unique tool for identifying causal links from genes to
human traits and diseases. However, it is challenging to determine the biological …