Polympact: exploring functional relations among common human genetic variants.

ABSTRACT: In the last years, many studies were able to identify associations between common genetic variants and complex diseases. However, the mechanistic biological links explaining these associations are still mostly unknown. Common variants are usually associated with a relatively small effect size, suggesting that interactions among multiple variants might be a major genetic component of complex diseases. Hence, elucidating the presence of functional relations among variants may be fundamental to identify putative variants' interactions. To this aim, we developed Polympact, a web-based resource that allows to explore functional relations among human common variants by exploiting variants' functional element landscape, their impact on transcription factor binding motifs, and their effect on tran

SUBMITTER: Valentini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860573 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature