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MutFormer: A context-dependent transformer-based model to predict pathogenic missense mutations
[article]
2022
arXiv
pre-print
In this study, we introduce MutFormer, a transformer-based model for the prediction of pathogenic missense mutations, using reference and mutated amino acid sequences from the human genome as the features ...
We next tested different fine-tuning methods for pathogenicity prediction, and determined that utilizing paired-protein sequences (concatenation of the wildtype and mutated protein sequence) yields the ...
We would also like to acknowledge the TPU Research Cloud (TRC) program by Google, which provided us with TPUs for the duration of the project. ...
arXiv:2110.14746v2
fatcat:gnc5eub4gvhsnil55x3dd4jyzy
A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder
2001
Nature
Acknowledgements We are deeply indebted to the KE family whose continued cooperation has made this research possible. We also thank CS and family for agreeing to participate in this study. We ...
The carboxy-terminal portion of the predicted protein sequence encoded by this gene (Fig. 2c) . ...
We screened the newly de®ned coding regions (exons 1, 3b and 8± 17) of FOXP2 for mutations in the KE family. ...
doi:10.1038/35097076
pmid:11586359
fatcat:7ofwlgy6wngv3g7dxd46q5bip4
High-throughput screening
2001
Nature
Acknowledgements We are deeply indebted to the KE family whose continued cooperation has made this research possible. We also thank CS and family for agreeing to participate in this study. We ...
The carboxy-terminal portion of the predicted protein sequence encoded by this gene (Fig. 2c) . ...
We screened the newly de®ned coding regions (exons 1, 3b and 8± 17) of FOXP2 for mutations in the KE family. ...
doi:10.1038/35097167
fatcat:7nmfs45corcgtgrbipack7f46m
A pathogenic PSEN2 p.His169Asn mutation associated with early-onset Alzheimer's disease
2018
Clinical Interventions in Aging
The pathogenic nature of missense mutation and its 3D protein structure prediction were performed by in silico prediction programs. ...
Genetic tests were performed in the patient to evaluate possible mutations using next-generation sequencing (NGS). ...
The Ontology program, ClueGO, for the interaction prediction of the variant carrier proteins, could also help to understand the potential roles of PSEN2 in 2 major processes: amyloid-associated mechanisms ...
doi:10.2147/cia.s170374
pmid:30104866
pmcid:PMC6074827
fatcat:yl46p43b5vhv3lcw3te3ydsdka
Predicting the Disease Risk of Protein Mutation Sequences With Pre-training Model
2020
Frontiers in Genetics
The concatenation of two learned representations are then sent to the classifier to predict the missense mutations of protein sequences. ...
In this paper, we propose a hybrid framework, called BertVS, that predicts the disease risk for the missense mutation of proteins. ...
BERT Pre-training Model As a well-known language model, BERT has shown stateof-the-art performance in most natural language processing tasks (Devlin et al., 2018) . ...
doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.605620
pmid:33408741
pmcid:PMC7780924
fatcat:piymsy5m6zedpk3nsu7kwm4hlu
Conservation analysis and pathogenicity prediction of mutant genes of ectodysplasin a
2018
BMC Medical Genetics
SIFT and PolyPhen-2, the online gene function prediction software, were utilized to predict the pathogenicity of point mutation of c.878 T > G. ...
In addition, the results of the pathogenicity prediction of point mutation of c.878 T > G by SIFT (P = 0.00) and PolyPhen-2 (S = 0.997) demonstrated that the mutation site had considerable pathogenicity ...
Funding The present study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (grant numbers 2017JJ2377); the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department of China (grant numbers 2015JC3038 ...
doi:10.1186/s12881-018-0726-2
fatcat:7yu2coun6rg4zhvvbgq5j2w56y
Role of CNTNAP2 in autism manifestation outlines the regulation of signaling between neurons at the synapse
2021
Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics
Secondary physical interactors of CNTNAP2 through CNTN2 proteins were mutated in the samples, further intensifying the severity. ...
This sample cohort was used to identify causal mutations in autism-specific genes to create a mutational landscape focusing on the CNTNAP2 gene. ...
Acknowledgements We thank the subjects and their families for participating in this study; the University of Mysore for their help and encouragement; the Department of Studies in Genetics and Genomics, ...
doi:10.1186/s43042-021-00138-z
fatcat:imlqhhqabrcwhlhbhdxul7jmiq
A Novel Potentially Pathogenic Rare Variant in the DNAJC7 Gene Identified in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients From Mainland China
2020
Frontiers in Genetics
Variants in the DNAJC7 gene have been shown to be novel causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, the contributions of DNAJC7 mutations in Asian ALS patients remain unclear. ...
Our results expand the pathogenic variant spectrum of DNAJC7 and indicate that variants in the DNAJC7 gene may also contribute to ALS in the Chinese population. ...
Data Bank (PDB) ID code] was used as the template. ...
doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.00821
pmid:33193563
pmcid:PMC7476650
fatcat:hcnujyqtvnehveywcaasoa4n5y
Deep Learning Architecture Optimization with Metaheuristic Algorithms for Predicting BRCA1/BRCA2 Pathogenicity NGS Analysis
2022
BioMedInformatics
and BRCA2 pathogenicity; Results, we will compare the results obtained by the two algorithms. ...
They are involved in a considerable number of biological processes. To help the biologist in tumor classification, we developed a deep learning algorithm. ...
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/biomedinformatics2020016
fatcat:gcd5xrinjvaxdeh5ay2jwwopgy
C9ORF72 repeat expansions and other FTD gene mutations in a clinical AD patient series from Mayo Clinic
2012
American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease
Pathogenic mutations of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilins 1 and 2 (PSEN1, PSEN2) genes have been linked to familial early-onset forms of AD; however, more recently mutations in the common ...
found to carry expanded GGGGCC repeats in the non-coding region of C9ORF72. ...
Acknowledgements This work was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (grants P50 AG016574, R01 AG026251, R01 AG18023 and R01 NS065782), the ALS Therapy Alliance, the Robert and Clarice Smith and ...
pmid:23383383
pmcid:PMC3560455
fatcat:v5ghdug5jvctxmvtq4bdtk6a44
New approaches to establish genetic causality
2015
Trends in cardiovascular medicine
A survey of general approaches used for functional annotation of variants will also be presented. ...
Whether one is seeking to discover the molecular basis for a disease in a research setting or trying to interpret results from a clinical genetic test, predicting the phenotypic effect of genetic variation ...
Although the presence of pathogenic variants was highly meaningful for predicting disease in a given family, the rare nature of these genetic variants made their use across the population highly limited ...
doi:10.1016/j.tcm.2015.02.013
pmid:25864169
pmcid:PMC4560679
fatcat:by7xnhvvpbbpfh6etuxxscd4c4
Exploring dementia and neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis genes in 100 FTD-like patients from 6 towns and rural villages on the Adriatic Sea cost of Apulia
2021
Scientific Reports
Although fully penetrant mutations in several genes have been identified and can explain the pathogenic mechanisms underlying a great portion of the Mendelian forms of the disease, still a significant ...
We identified a nonsense mutation in SORL1 VPS domain (p.R744X), in 2 siblings displaying AD with severe language problems and primary progressive aphasia and a near splice-site mutation in CLCN6 (p.S116P ...
Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by the Intramural Research Programs of the National Institute on Aging and the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, within the National ...
doi:10.1038/s41598-021-85494-x
pmid:33737586
fatcat:2shyp32bejdibc7frywcijzkvy
Darwin and Fisher meet at biotech: on the potential of computational molecular evolution in industry
2015
BMC Evolutionary Biology
Pharma and biotech industries can successfully use this potential, and should take the initiative to enhance their research and development with state of the art bioinformatics approaches. ...
Results: Natural selection drives function conservation and adaptation to emerging pathogens or new environments; selection plays key role in immune and resistance systems. ...
Acknowledgements This article was motivated by the mini-symposium "Life in numbers: the use of modeling and simulation in life sciences" which took place on the 5th of June 2014 at the Zürich University ...
doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0352-y
pmid:25928234
pmcid:PMC4422139
fatcat:b3hgofdtojbbnhxfdytx2uqene
Genetic analyses of early-onset Alzheimer's disease using next generation sequencing
2019
Scientific Reports
Many mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin 1 and 2 (PSEN1 and PSEN2) have been reported as the pathogenic causes of early-onset AD (EOAD), which accounts for up to 5% of all AD ...
Main limitation of this study was the absence of functional assessment for possibly and probably pathogenic variants. ...
SIFT uses different protein databases, such as SWISS-PROT, SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL, or protein databases of NCBI to calculate the possibility of the pathogenic nature of mutations by comparing mutant and normal ...
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-44848-2
pmid:31182772
pmcid:PMC6557896
fatcat:fkfnl5ffanbtphqchsen6z6llm
A novel phylogenetic analysis combined with a machine learning approach predicts human mitochondrial variant pathogenicity
[article]
2020
bioRxiv
pre-print
Next, we use machine learning to predict the pathogenicity of thousands of so-far-uncharacterized human alleles catalogued in the clinic. ...
However, the utility of multiple sequence alignments in pathogenicity prediction can be restricted by factors including sample set bias, alignment errors, and sequencing errors. ...
First, we tested how the compared methods would fare against the training set that was used to build our own prediction model for variants in protein-coding genes. ...
doi:10.1101/2020.01.10.902239
fatcat:pcduneapozbczhokfi4fh7fks4
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