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A general framework for estimating the relative pathogenicity of human genetic variants

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Kircher, Martin, Witten, Daniela M, Jain, Preti, O'Roak, Brian J, Cooper, Gregory M, Shendure, Jay·2014·Nature Genetics

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Current methods for annotating and interpreting human genetic variation tend to exploit a single information type (for example, conservation) and/or are restricted in scope (for example, to missense changes). Here we describe Combined Annotation-Dependent Depletion (CADD), a method for objectively integrating many diverse annotations into a single measure (C score) for each variant. We implement CADD as a support vector machine trained to differentiate 14.7 million high-frequency human-derived alleles from 14.7 million simulated variants. We precompute C scores for all 8.6 billion possible human single-nucleotide variants and enable scoring of short insertions-deletions. C scores correlate with allelic diversity, annotations of functionality, pathogenicity, disease severity, experimentally measured regulatory effects and complex trait associations, and they highly rank known pathogenic variants within individual genomes. The ability of CADD to prioritize functional, deleterious and pathogenic variants across many functional categories, effect sizes and genetic architectures is unmatched by any current single-annotation method.

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Authors
Kircher, M., Witten, D. M., Jain, P., O'Roak, B. J., Cooper, G. M., & Shendure, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (US)
Corresponding author
  • Cooper, Gregory M
  • Shendure, Jay
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2014-02-02
Volume
46
Issue
3
Pages
310-315
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W2160995259
Cited by
6,183
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65
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281.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (DP5OD009145)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (DP1HG007811, U54HG006493, UM1HG006493)
  • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (DP1 HG007811)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
CADD, genetic variant annotation, deleterious mutations, single nucleotide variants, indels, support vector machine, regulatory effects, disease severity, allelic diversity, variant prioritization
MeSH terms
Humans, Models, Genetic, Selection, Genetic, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, INDEL Mutation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Support Vector Machine

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