Exome sequencing in diabetes presents a diagnostic challenge because depending on frequency, functional impact, and genomic and environmental contexts, HNF1A variants can cause maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), increase type 2 diabetes ris...
Advances in genome sequencing have led to a tremendous increase in the discovery of novel missense variants, but evidence for determining clinical significance can be limited or conflicting. Here, we present Learning from Evidence to Assess Pathogeni...
Computational prediction of binding between neoantigen peptides and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins can be used to predict patient response to cancer immunotherapy. Current neoantigen predictors focus on estimation of MHC binding aff...
Genetic polymorphisms are mostly associated with inherited diseases, detecting and analyzing the biological significance of functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using wet laboratory experiments is an arduous task hence the computational ...
IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
Nov 21, 2018
Transcription factors (TFs) are the major components of human gene regulation. In particular, they bind onto specific DNA sequences and regulate neighborhood genes in different tissues at different developmental stages. Non-synonymous single nucleoti...
International journal of biological macromolecules
Jun 24, 2018
Newly synthesized polypeptides must pass stringent quality controls in cells to ensure appropriate folding and function. However, mutations, environmental stresses and aging can reduce efficiencies of these controls, leading to accumulation of protei...
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Feb 2, 2018
Deleterious variants in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD, DPYD gene) can be highly predictive of clinical toxicity to the widely prescribed chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). However, there are very limited data pertaining to the functional ...
Journal of the American Heart Association
Dec 21, 2017
BACKGROUND: genetic variants confer an increased risk for kidney disease. Their associations with cardiovascular disease (CVD) are less certain. We aimed to compare the prevalence of subclinical CVD and incidence of atherosclerotic CVD and heart fai...
Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis
Jul 18, 2017
Hereditary (familial) amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a systemic disease that includes a sensorimotor polyneuropathy related to transthyretin (TTR) mutations. So far, a scale designed to classify the severity of this disease has not yet been validate...
BACKGROUND: Several methods have been developed to predict the pathogenicity of missense mutations but none has been specifically designed for classification of variants in mtDNA-encoded polypeptides. Moreover, there is not available curated dataset ...
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