Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Inferring the molecular and phenotypic impact of amino acid variants with MutPred2

  • Vikas Pejaver,
  • Jorge Urresti,
  • Jose Lugo-Martinez,
  • Kymberleigh A. Pagel,
  • Guan Ning Lin,
  • Hyun-Jun Nam,
  • Matthew Mort,
  • David N. Cooper,
  • Jonathan Sebat,
  • Lilia M. Iakoucheva,
  • Sean D. Mooney,
  • Predrag Radivojac

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19669-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Identifying variants capable of causing genetic disease is challenging. The authors use semisupervised learning to predict pathogenic missense variants and their impacts on protein structure and function, enabling a molecular mechanism-driven approach to studying different types of human disease.