Deep learning sequence-based ab initio prediction of variant effects on expression and disease risk

J Zhou, CL Theesfeld, K Yao, KM Chen, AK Wong… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Key challenges for human genetics, precision medicine and evolutionary biology include
deciphering the regulatory code of gene expression and understanding the transcriptional …

Effective gene expression prediction from sequence by integrating long-range interactions

Ž Avsec, V Agarwal, D Visentin, JR Ledsam… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
How noncoding DNA determines gene expression in different cell types is a major unsolved
problem, and critical downstream applications in human genetics depend on improved …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from functional and population genomic data

YF Huang, B Gulko, A Siepel - Nature genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Many genetic variants that influence phenotypes of interest are located outside of protein-
coding genes, yet existing methods for identifying such variants have poor predictive power …

Disease variant prediction with deep generative models of evolutionary data

J Frazer, P Notin, M Dias, A Gomez, JK Min, K Brock… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Quantifying the pathogenicity of protein variants in human disease-related genes would
have a marked effect on clinical decisions, yet the overwhelming majority (over 98%) of …

regBase: whole genome base-wise aggregation and functional prediction for human non-coding regulatory variants

S Zhang, Y He, H Liu, H Zhai, D Huang… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Predicting the functional or pathogenic regulatory variants in the human non-coding genome
facilitates the interpretation of disease causation. While numerous prediction methods are …

A method to predict the impact of regulatory variants from DNA sequence

D Lee, DU Gorkin, M Baker, BJ Strober, AL Asoni… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Most variants implicated in common human disease by genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) lie in noncoding sequence intervals. Despite the suggestion that regulatory element …

Decoding disease: from genomes to networks to phenotypes

AK Wong, RSG Sealfon, CL Theesfeld… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interpreting the effects of genetic variants is key to understanding individual susceptibility to
disease and designing personalized therapeutic approaches. Modern experimental …