Jaravine, V.; Balmford, J.; Metzger, P.; Boerries, M.; Binder, H.; Böker, M. Annotation of Human Exome Gene Variants with Consensus Pathogenicity. Genes2020, 11, 1076.
Jaravine, V.; Balmford, J.; Metzger, P.; Boerries, M.; Binder, H.; Böker, M. Annotation of Human Exome Gene Variants with Consensus Pathogenicity. Genes 2020, 11, 1076.
Jaravine, V.; Balmford, J.; Metzger, P.; Boerries, M.; Binder, H.; Böker, M. Annotation of Human Exome Gene Variants with Consensus Pathogenicity. Genes2020, 11, 1076.
Jaravine, V.; Balmford, J.; Metzger, P.; Boerries, M.; Binder, H.; Böker, M. Annotation of Human Exome Gene Variants with Consensus Pathogenicity. Genes 2020, 11, 1076.
Abstract
Pathogenicity is unknown for the majority of human gene variants. For prioritization of sequenced somatic and germline mutation variants, in silico approaches can be utilized. In this study, 84 million non-synonymous Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) in the human coding genome were annotated using consensus Variant Effect Prediction (cVEP) method. An algorithm, implemented as a stacked ensemble of supervised learners, performed combination of the 39 functional, conservation mutation impact scores from dbNSFP4.0. Adding gene indispensability score, accounting for differences in the pathogenicities of the variants in the essential and the mutation-tolerant genes, improved the predictions. For each SNV the consensus combination gives either a continuous-value pathogenicity score, or a categorical score in five classes: pathogenic, likely pathogenic, uncertain significance, likely benign, benign. The provided class database is aimed for direct use in clinical practice. The trained prediction models were 5-fold cross-validated on the evidence-based categorical annotations from the ClinVar database. The rankings of the scores based on their ability to predict pathogenicity were obtained. A two-step strategy using the rankings, scores and class annotations is suggested for filtering and prioritization of the human exome mutations in clinical and biological applications of NGS technology.
Keywords
Variant of Unknown Significance (VUS); Single-Nucleotide Variant (SNV); Variant Effect Prediction (VEP); Stacked Ensemble of Supervised Deep Learners (SESDL); Next Generation Sequencing (NGS); Alternative Allele Frequency (AAF).
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Copyright:
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