BACKGROUND: Genetic variation in the human genome is a major determinant of individual disease risk, but the vast majority of missense variants have unknown etiological effects. Here, we present a robust learning framework for leveraging saturation m...
AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool for predicting the 3D structure of proteins, is now widely recognized for its high accuracy and versatility in the folding of human proteins. AlphaFold is useful for understanding structure-functi...
BACKGROUND: Mutations within the Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene are known to cause VHL disease, which is characterized by the formation of cysts and tumors in multiple organs of the body, particularly clear cell renal cell carcinoma (c...
Protein missense mutations and resulting protein stability changes are important causes for many human genetic diseases. However, the accurate prediction of stability changes due to mutations remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we...
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy affecting Western women today. It is estimated that as many as 10% of BC cases can be attributed to germline variants. However, the genetic basis of the majority of familial BC cases has yet to be iden...
We describe the machine learning tool that we applied in the CAGI 6 experiment to predict whether single residue mutations in proteins are deleterious or benign. This tool was trained using only single sequences, i.e., without multiple sequence align...
The classification of missense variant pathogenicity continues to pose significant challenges in human genetics, necessitating precise predictions of functional impacts for effective disease diagnosis and personalized treatment strategies. Traditiona...
Computational models have made significant progress in predicting the effect of protein variants. However, deciphering numerous variants of uncertain significance (VUS) located within intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) remains challenging. To ad...
Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) can exert substantial and extremely variable impacts on various cellular functions, making accurate predictions of their consequences challenging, albeit crucial especially in clinical settings such as in oncology. L...