Toward identification of functional sequences and variants in noncoding DNA

R Monti, U Ohler - Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the noncoding part of the genome, which encodes gene regulation, is
necessary to identify genetic mechanisms of disease and translate findings from genome …

Deep learning of genomic variation and regulatory network data

A Telenti, C Lippert, PC Chang… - Human molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The human genome is now investigated through high-throughput functional assays, and
through the generation of population genomic data. These advances support the …

Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model

J Zhou, OG Troyanskaya - Nature methods, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying functional effects of noncoding variants is a major challenge in human genetics.
To predict the noncoding-variant effects de novo from sequence, we developed a deep …

Functional interpretation of genetic variants using deep learning predicts impact on chromatin accessibility and histone modification

GE Hoffman, J Bendl, K Girdhar, EE Schadt… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Identifying functional variants underlying disease risk and adoption of personalized
medicine are currently limited by the challenge of interpreting the functional consequences …

Regulatory variants: from detection to predicting impact

E Rojano, P Seoane, JAG Ranea… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Variants within non-coding genomic regions can greatly affect disease. In recent years,
increasing focus has been given to these variants, and how they can alter regulatory …

De novo pattern discovery enables robust assessment of functional consequences of non-coding variants

H Yang, R Chen, Q Wang, Q Wei, Y Ji, G Zheng… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Given the complexity of genome regions, prioritize the functional effects of non-
coding variants remains a challenge. Although several frameworks have been proposed for …

Human Molecular Genetics Review Issue 2022

F Cheng, D Geschwind - Human Molecular Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent remarkable advances in high-throughput genotyping and next-generation DNA-
sequencing technologies have generated massive human genome sequencing datasets …

Challenges and progress in interpretation of non-coding genetic variants associated with human disease

Y Zhu, C Tazearslan, Y Suh - Experimental Biology and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Genome-wide association studies have shown that the far majority of disease-associated
variants reside in the non-coding regions of the genome, suggesting that gene regulatory …

Finding Needles in the Haystack: Strategies for Uncovering Noncoding Regulatory Variants

Y Chen, MI Paramo, Y Zhang, L Yao… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Despite accumulating evidence implicating noncoding variants in human diseases,
unraveling their functionality remains a significant challenge. Systematic annotations of the …

GREEN-DB: a framework for the annotation and prioritization of non-coding regulatory variants from whole-genome sequencing data

E Giacopuzzi, N Popitsch, JC Taylor - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Non-coding variants have long been recognized as important contributors to common
disease risks, but with the expansion of clinical whole genome sequencing, examples of …