De novo pattern discovery enables robust assessment of functional consequences of non-coding variants.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Given the complexity of genome regions, prioritize the functional effects of non-coding variants remains a challenge. Although several frameworks have been proposed for the evaluation of the functionality of non-coding variants, most of them used 'black boxes' methods that simplify the task as the pathogenicity/benign classification problem, which ignores the distinct regulatory mechanisms of variants and leads to less desirable performance. In this study, we developed DVAR, an unsupervised framework that leverage various biochemical and evolutionary evidence to distinguish the gene regulatory categories of variants and assess their comprehensive functional impact simultaneously.

Results

DVAR performed de novo pattern discovery in high-dimensional data and identif

SUBMITTER: Yang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6499232 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature