4 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2018
    1. Recent efforts to characterize noncoding sequences using high-throughput biochemical assays have produced a wealth of data

      testtest

    2. Many of these nucleotides appear to fall in cis-regulatory elements

      fgfgfg

    3. In conceptual terms, the new LINSIGHT method is closely related to our previous fitCons method
      1. annotation test 1;
      2. annotation 2;
    4. Manygeneticvariantsthatinfluencephenotypesofinterestarelocatedoutsideofprotein-codinggenes,yetexistingmethodsforidentifyingsuchvariantshavepoorpredictivepower.Hereweintroduceanewcomputationalmethod,calledLINSIGHT,thatsubstantiallyimprovesthepredictionofnoncodingnucleotidesitesatwhichmutationsarelikelytohavedeleteriousfitnessconsequences,andwhich,therefore,arelikelytobephenotypicallyimportant.LINSIGHTcombinesageneralizedlinearmodelforfunctionalgenomicdatawithaprobabilisticmodelofmolecularevolution.Themethodisfastandhighlyscalable,enablingittoexploitthe‘bigdata’availableinmoderngenomics.WeshowthatLINSIGHToutperformsthebestavailablemethodsinidentifyinghumannoncodingvariantsassociatedwithinheriteddiseases.Inaddition,weapplyLINSIGHTtoanatlasofhumanenhancersandshowthatthefitnessconsequencesatenhancersdependoncelltype,tissuespecificity,andconstraintsatassociatedpromoters.

      article abstract!