Deciphering the impact of genomic variation on function

Code of Conduct Committee (alphabetical by last name … - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Our genomes influence nearly every aspect of human biology—from molecular and cellular
functions to phenotypes in health and disease. Studying the differences in DNA sequence …

Scalable functional assays for the interpretation of human genetic variation

D Tabet, V Parikh, P Mali, FP Roth… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Scalable sequence–function studies have enabled the systematic analysis and cataloging of
hundreds of thousands of coding and noncoding genetic variants in the human genome …

Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

J Cheng, G Novati, J Pan, C Bycroft, A Žemgulytė… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The vast majority of missense variants observed in the human genome are of unknown
clinical significance. We present AlphaMissense, an adaptation of AlphaFold fine-tuned on …

An Atlas of Variant Effects to understand the genome at nucleotide resolution

DM Fowler, DJ Adams, AL Gloyn, WC Hahn, DS Marks… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Sequencing has revealed hundreds of millions of human genetic variants, and continued
efforts will only add to this variant avalanche. Insufficient information exists to interpret the …

Will variants of uncertain significance still exist in 2030?

DM Fowler, HL Rehm - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Summary In 2020, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) made ten" bold
predictions," including that" the clinical relevance of all encountered genomic variants will be …

Lynch syndrome, molecular mechanisms and variant classification

AB Abildgaard, SV Nielsen, I Bernstein, A Stein… - British journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with the heritable cancer disease, Lynch syndrome, carry germline variants in the
MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 genes, encoding the central components of the DNA …

Multimodal scanning of genetic variants with base and prime editing

O Belli, K Karava, R Farouni, RJ Platt - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Mutational scanning connects genetic variants to phenotype, enabling the interrogation of
protein functions, interactions and variant pathogenicity. However, current methodologies …

Saturation genome editing of DDX3X clarifies pathogenicity of germline and somatic variation

EJ Radford, HK Tan, MHL Andersson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Loss-of-function of DDX3X is a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in
females. DDX3X is also a somatically mutated cancer driver gene proposed to have tumour …

Precision medicine in rare diseases: What is next?

B Tesi, C Boileau, KM Boycott… - Journal of Internal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular diagnostics is a cornerstone of modern precision medicine, broadly understood
as tailoring an individual's treatment, follow‐up, and care based on molecular data. In rare …

Hereditary platelet disorders associated with germ line variants in RUNX1, ETV6, and ANKRD26

CC Homan, HS Scott, AL Brown - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Hereditary platelet disorders (HPDs) are a group of blood disorders with variable severity
and clinical impact. Although phenotypically there is much overlap, known genetic causes …