Genome interpretation using in silico predictors of variant impact
Estimating the effects of variants found in disease driver genes opens the door to
personalized therapeutic opportunities. Clinical associations and laboratory experiments …
personalized therapeutic opportunities. Clinical associations and laboratory experiments …
Leveraging polygenic functional enrichment to improve GWAS power
Functional genomics data has the potential to increase GWAS power by identifying SNPs
that have a higher prior probability of association. Here, we introduce a method that …
that have a higher prior probability of association. Here, we introduce a method that …
dbNSFP v4: a comprehensive database of transcript-specific functional predictions and annotations for human nonsynonymous and splice-site SNVs
Whole exome sequencing has been increasingly used in human disease studies.
Prioritization based on appropriate functional annotations has been used as an …
Prioritization based on appropriate functional annotations has been used as an …
Insights on variant analysis in silico tools for pathogenicity prediction
Molecular biology is currently a fast-advancing science. Sequencing techniques are getting
cheaper, but the interpretation of genetic variants requires expertise and computational …
cheaper, but the interpretation of genetic variants requires expertise and computational …
Updated benchmarking of variant effect predictors using deep mutational scanning
The assessment of variant effect predictor (VEP) performance is fraught with biases
introduced by benchmarking against clinical observations. In this study, building on our …
introduced by benchmarking against clinical observations. In this study, building on our …
[HTML][HTML] Improved pathogenicity prediction for rare human missense variants
The success of personalized genomic medicine depends on our ability to assess the
pathogenicity of rare human variants, including the important class of missense variation …
pathogenicity of rare human variants, including the important class of missense variation …
Performance evaluation of pathogenicity-computation methods for missense variants
J Li, T Zhao, Y Zhang, K Zhang, L Shi… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
With expanding applications of next-generation sequencing in medical genetics, increasing
computational methods are being developed to predict the pathogenicity of missense …
computational methods are being developed to predict the pathogenicity of missense …
Using deep mutational scanning to benchmark variant effect predictors and identify disease mutations
To deal with the huge number of novel protein‐coding variants identified by genome and
exome sequencing studies, many computational variant effect predictors (VEPs) have been …
exome sequencing studies, many computational variant effect predictors (VEPs) have been …
ClinPred: prediction tool to identify disease-relevant nonsynonymous single-nucleotide variants
Advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have revolutionized the discovery of variants
in the human genome; however, interpreting the phenotypic effects of those variants is still a …
in the human genome; however, interpreting the phenotypic effects of those variants is still a …
Predicting the clinical impact of human mutation with deep neural networks
Millions of human genomes and exomes have been sequenced, but their clinical
applications remain limited due to the difficulty of distinguishing disease-causing mutations …
applications remain limited due to the difficulty of distinguishing disease-causing mutations …