Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Improving the informativeness of Mendelian disease-derived pathogenicity scores for common disease

  • Samuel S. Kim,
  • Kushal K. Dey,
  • Omer Weissbrod,
  • Carla Márquez-Luna,
  • Steven Gazal,
  • Alkes L. Price

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20087-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Pathogenicity scores are instrumental in prioritizing variants for Mendelian disease, yet their application to common disease is largely unexplored. Here, the authors assess the utility of pathogenicity scores for 41 complex traits and develop a framework to improve their informativeness for common disease.