Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Using ALoFT to determine the impact of putative loss-of-function variants in protein-coding genes

  • Suganthi Balasubramanian,
  • Yao Fu,
  • Mayur Pawashe,
  • Patrick McGillivray,
  • Mike Jin,
  • Jeremy Liu,
  • Konrad J. Karczewski,
  • Daniel G. MacArthur,
  • Mark Gerstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00443-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Variants causing loss of function (LoF) of human genes have clinical implications. Here, the authors present a method to predict disease-causing potential of LoF variants, ALoFT (annotation of Loss-of-Function Transcripts) and show its application to interpreting LoF variants in different contexts.