Genome interpretation using in silico predictors of variant impact

P Katsonis, K Wilhelm, A Williams, O Lichtarge - Human genetics, 2022 - Springer
Estimating the effects of variants found in disease driver genes opens the door to
personalized therapeutic opportunities. Clinical associations and laboratory experiments …

Primary Coenzyme Q deficiencies: A literature review and online platform of clinical features to uncover genotype-phenotype correlations

M Alcázar-Fabra, F Rodríguez-Sánchez… - Free Radical Biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Primary Coenzyme Q (CoQ) deficiencies are clinically heterogeneous conditions
and lack clear genotype-phenotype correlations, complicating diagnosis and prognostic …

Expanding the boundaries of RNA sequencing as a diagnostic tool for rare Mendelian disease

HD Gonorazky, S Naumenko, AK Ramani… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Gene-panel and whole-exome analyses are now standard methodologies for mutation
detection in Mendelian disease. However, the diagnostic yield achieved is at best 50 …

MMSplice: modular modeling improves the predictions of genetic variant effects on splicing

J Cheng, TYD Nguyen, KJ Cygan, MH Çelik… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Predicting the effects of genetic variants on splicing is highly relevant for human genetics.
We describe the framework MMSplice (modular modeling of splicing) with which we built the …

SPiP: Splicing Prediction Pipeline, a machine learning tool for massive detection of exonic and intronic variant effects on mRNA splicing

R Leman, B Parfait, D Vidaud, E Girodon… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling splicing is essential for tackling the challenge of variant interpretation as each
nucleotide variation can be pathogenic by affecting pre‐mRNA splicing via …

In silico methods for predicting functional synonymous variants

BC Lin, U Katneni, KI Jankowska, D Meyer… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) contribute to human genomic diversity. Synonymous
SNVs are previously considered to be “silent,” but mounting evidence has revealed that …

CI-SpliceAI—improving machine learning predictions of disease causing splicing variants using curated alternative splice sites

Y Strauch, J Lord, M Niranjan, D Baralle - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background It is estimated that up to 50% of all disease causing variants disrupt splicing.
Due to its complexity, our ability to predict which variants disrupt splicing is limited, meaning …

Performance evaluation of differential splicing analysis methods and splicing analytics platform construction

K Li, T Luo, Y Zhu, Y Huang, A Wang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A proportion of previously defined benign variants or variants of uncertain significance in
humans, which are challenging to identify, may induce an abnormal splicing process. An …

Introme accurately predicts the impact of coding and noncoding variants on gene splicing, with clinical applications

PJ Sullivan, V Gayevskiy, RL Davis, M Wong, C Mayoh… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Predicting the impact of coding and noncoding variants on splicing is challenging,
particularly in non-canonical splice sites, leading to missed diagnoses in patients. Existing …

Learning the regulatory code of gene expression

J Zrimec, F Buric, M Kokina, V Garcia… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Data-driven machine learning is the method of choice for predicting molecular phenotypes
from nucleotide sequence, modeling gene expression events including protein-DNA …