Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Prioritizing non-coding regions based on human genomic constraint and sequence context with deep learning

  • Dimitrios Vitsios,
  • Ryan S. Dhindsa,
  • Lawrence Middleton,
  • Ayal B. Gussow,
  • Slavé Petrovski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21790-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Intolerance to variation is a strong indicator of disease relevance for coding regions of the human genome. Here, the authors present JARVIS, a deep learning method integrating intolerance to variation in non-coding regions and sequence-specific annotations to infer non-coding variant pathogenicity.