AIMC Topic: Genetic Predisposition to Disease

Clear Filters Showing 1 to 10 of 315 articles

Genome-wide association study reveals genetic architecture and evolution of human retinal pigmentation.

Science advances
Pigmentation varies widely across humans and is shaped by melanin quantity, type, and spatial distribution. Retinal pigmentation protects against light-induced damage, yet its genetic and evolutionary bases remain unclear. We developed a deep learnin...

Decoding the germline genetic architecture of prostate cancer at a single cell resolution.

PLoS genetics
Prostate cancer exhibits a strong familial association, and its heritability indicates a significant contribution from germline variants. While genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common germline variants associated with prostate c...

Transformer-based deep learning enhances discovery in migraine GWAS.

Nature communications
Migraine is a complex neurological disorder with substantial heritability, yet genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have explained only a fraction of its genetic component. We developed InsightGWAS, a Transformer-based model, to enhance genetic dis...

The - 216G/T polymorphism in the EGFR gene: A review focusing on Non-Small lung cancer.

Molecular biology reports
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a key regulator of cell proliferation and a well-established therapeutic target in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Somatic mutations in the EGFR gene have been widely studied in the context of tyrosi...

BayesRVAT enhances rare-variant association testing through Bayesian aggregation of functional annotations.

Genome research
Gene-level rare variant association tests (RVATs) are essential for uncovering disease mechanisms and identifying therapeutic targets. Advances in sequence-based machine learning have generated diverse variant pathogenicity scores, creating opportuni...

Non-coding genetic variants underlying higher prostate cancer risk in men of African ancestry.

Nature communications
Prostate cancer (PrCa) incidence and severity vary across ancestries; men of African ancestry (AA) are more likely to be diagnosed and die from PrCa than those of European ancestry (EA). Current polygenic risk scores, even from multi-ancestry GWAS, d...

Machine learning models incorporating genotype and ancestry improve severe asthma risk prediction.

Scientific reports
This study proposes a novel machine learning (ML)-based stacking technique that integrates Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and inferred local ancestry (LA) to improve predictive accuracy in clinical outcomes. Asthma, particularly severe asthma...

Genetic factors in the risk assessment of preeclampsia: a review of recent findings.

Molecular biology reports
Preeclampsia, characterized by high blood pressure, proteinuria and organ dysfunction in severe cases is a hypertensive disorder that occurs during pregnancy. There is strong evidence that this disease, whose etiology remains unclear, is a complex co...

Revealing new associations between lncRNAs and diseases through cross attention mechanism and multiple level feature fusion.

Scientific reports
Revealing new lncRNA-disease associations (LDAs) is necessary to decipher pathological mechanisms and find new clues of diagnosis and therapy for complex diseases. However, experimental methods for LDA identification need a significant amount of time...