Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

A semi-supervised approach for predicting cell-type specific functional consequences of non-coding variation using MPRAs

  • Zihuai He,
  • Linxi Liu,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Iuliana Ionita-Laza

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07349-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Predicting the functional consequences of non-coding genetic variants is a challenge. Here, He et al. present GenoNet, a semi-supervised method that combines information from experimentally confirmed regulatory variants with cell type- and tissue specific annotation for function prediction.