Predicting the Deleteriousness of Genomic Variants – Big and Small
summary
CADD scores short variants by contrasting fixed human‑derived alleles with simulated de novo changes and integrates many annotations on a single continuous scale, and sequence‑based DNN splice predictors like SpliceAI and MMSplice are added to boost splice‑variant ranking while failing to capture concurrent nonsense/missense effects. The same contrastive framework extends to CADD-SV, which summarizes genome annotations across SV spans, outperforms SVScore/AnnotSV on pathogenicity and frequency, and currently omits inversions/translocations and inserted‑sequence modeling.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22Genome-wide predictors of variant effects
- 1:15Precision medicine: Sequence variant interpretation
- 1:41Variant filtering hierarchies
- 2:08No annotation vs. annotation overload
- 2:23Data integration with a supervised machine learning approach
- 2:51Clinical variant sources
- 3:41Clin Var lacks exon distal variants
- 4:45Representation of non-coding variants does not improve
- 6:42Purifying selection creates annotation dependent depletion
- 7:15CADD for variant prioritization
- 8:44Integration of sequence derived scores
- 9:22Integrating Splice Deep Learning models in v1.6 ("CADD-Splice")
- 11:15Importance of regulatory sequences
- 12:39Performance of computational predictors on MPRA data
- 14:45Goal: Extended sequence based models of regulatory effects
- 16:32Structural variants (SVS) & disease Insertions, deletions, inversions and translocations, Copy Number Variants
- 20:56Limitations and outlook
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