Variant interpretation using population databases: Lessons from gnomAD

S Gudmundsson, M Singer‐Berk, NA Watts… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reference population databases are an essential tool in variant and gene interpretation.
Their use guides the identification of pathogenic variants amidst the sea of benign variation …

Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing: roles in physiology and disease, and therapeutic prospects

ME Rogalska, C Vivori, J Valcárcel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The removal of introns from mRNA precursors and its regulation by alternative splicing are
key for eukaryotic gene expression and cellular function, as evidenced by the numerous …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes

X Zhou, P Feliciano, C Shu, T Wang, I Astrovskaya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To capture the full spectrum of genetic risk for autism, we performed a two-stage analysis of
rare de novo and inherited coding variants in 42,607 autism cases, including 35,130 new …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model

N Brandes, G Goldman, CH Wang, CJ Ye, V Ntranos - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of coding variants is a major challenge. While recent deep-learning
models have improved variant effect prediction accuracy, they cannot analyze all coding …

[HTML][HTML] CADD-Splice—improving genome-wide variant effect prediction using deep learning-derived splice scores

P Rentzsch, M Schubach, J Shendure, M Kircher - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Splicing of genomic exons into mRNAs is a critical prerequisite for the accurate
synthesis of human proteins. Genetic variants impacting splicing underlie a substantial …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic single-variant and gene-based association testing of thousands of phenotypes in 394,841 UK Biobank exomes

KJ Karczewski, M Solomonson, KR Chao, JK Goodrich… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies have successfully discovered thousands of common
variants associated with human diseases and traits, but the landscape of rare variations in …

[HTML][HTML] The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

KJ Karczewski, LC Francioli, G Tiao, BB Cummings… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic variants that inactivate protein-coding genes are a powerful source of information
about the phenotypic consequences of gene disruption: genes that are crucial for the …

The UCSC genome browser database: 2022 update

BT Lee, GP Barber, A Benet-Pagès… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The UCSC Genome Browser, https://genome. ucsc. edu, is a graphical viewer for
exploring genome annotations. The website provides integrated tools for visualizing …

Using the ACMG/AMP framework to capture evidence related to predicted and observed impact on splicing: Recommendations from the ClinGen SVI Splicing …

LC Walker, M de la Hoya, GAR Wiggins, A Lindy… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)/Association for
Molecular Pathology (AMP) framework for classifying variants uses six evidence categories …

Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease

PF Sullivan, JRS Meadows, S Gazal, BDN Phan, X Li… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but
attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which …