Prioritizing genes for systematic variant effect mapping.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

When rare missense variants are clinically interpreted as to their pathogenicity, most are classified as variants of uncertain significance (VUS). Although functional assays can provide strong evidence for variant classification, such results are generally unavailable. Multiplexed assays of variant effect can generate experimental 'variant effect maps' that score nearly all possible missense variants in selected protein targets for their impact on protein function. However, these efforts have not always prioritized proteins for which variant effect maps would have the greatest impact on clinical variant interpretation.

Results

Here, we mined databases of clinically interpreted variants and applied three strategies, each building on the previous, to prioritize gene

SUBMITTER: Kuang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8016487 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature