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 …

Endocrine and cellular physiology and pathology of the insulin-like growth factor acid-labile subunit

RC Baxter - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2024 - nature.com
The acid-labile subunit (ALS) of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding protein (IGFBP)
complex, encoded in humans by IGFALS, has a vital role in regulating the endocrine …

Machine learning prediction and tau-based screening identifies potential Alzheimer's disease genes relevant to immunity

J Binder, O Ursu, C Bologa, S Jiang, N Maphis… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
With increased research funding for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders across
the globe, large amounts of data are being generated. Several studies employed machine …

Evolutionary action of mutations reveals antimicrobial resistance genes in Escherichia coli

DC Marciano, C Wang, TK Hsu, T Bourquard… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Since antibiotic development lags, we search for potential drug targets through directed
evolution experiments. A challenge is that many resistance genes hide in a noisy mutational …

Functional variants identify sex-specific genes and pathways in Alzheimer's Disease

T Bourquard, K Lee, I Al-Ramahi, M Pham… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in females is almost double that of males. To search
for sex-specific gene associations, we build a machine learning approach focused on …

Identification of risk genes for Alzheimer's disease by gene embedding

Y Lagisetty, T Bourquard, I Al-Ramahi, CG Mangleburg… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Most disease-gene association methods do not account for gene-gene interactions, even
though these play a crucial role in complex, polygenic diseases like Alzheimer's disease …

Integration of transcriptome-wide association study with neuronal dysfunction assays provides functional genomics evidence for Parkinson's disease genes

J Li, BK Amoh, E McCormick, A Tarkunde… - Human Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have markedly advanced our understanding of
the genetics of Parkinson's disease (PD), but they currently do not account for the full …

A general calculus of fitness landscapes finds genes under selection in cancers

TK Hsu, J Asmussen, A Koire, BK Choi… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Genetic variants drive the evolution of traits and diseases. We previously modeled these
variants as small displacements in fitness landscapes and estimated their functional impact …

EPIMUTESTR: a nearest neighbor machine learning approach to predict cancer driver genes from the evolutionary action of coding variants

S Parvandeh, LA Donehower, P Katsonis… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Discovering rare cancer driver genes is difficult because their mutational frequency is too
low for statistical detection by computational methods. EPIMUTESTR is an integrative …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of blood-based transcriptomics biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease using statistical and machine learning classifier

MN Abdullah, YB Wah, ABA Majeed, Y Zakaria… - Informatics in Medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that can be characterised by the
gradual progression of memory loss, impairment of cognitive function, and progressive …