Clustering-Based Methods for Clinical Risk Prediction of Rare Missense Variants
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Bernatchez, Jackson
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Cassa, Christopher
Date Issued
June 2021
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
A long-standing goal in clinical genomics is to map individual genetic variants to clinical outcomes. Typically, variants which lead to loss of function (e.g. nonsense or stop-codon inducing variants, frameshifts, or deletions) are more easily classified as pathogenic in an established disease gene. However, there are many other missense variants identified in established disease genes which are more challenging to classify. Improving predictions of such variants has the potential to lead to clinically actionable solutions for individual patients. In this paper, we develop and evaluate several new clustering-based approaches for predicting the clinical risk of rare missense variants. We find that our results are comparable to existing methods, and offer several opportunities to significantly improve clinical risk predictions for missense variants.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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