Gene-specific machine learning for pathogenicity prediction of rare BRCA1 and BRCA2 missense variants

Autor: Moonjong Kang, Seonhwa Kim, Da-Bin Lee, Changbum Hong, Kyu-Baek Hwang
Rok vydání: 2023
Popis: Machine learning-based pathogenicity prediction helps interpret rare missense variants of BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are associated with hereditary cancers. Recent studies have shown that classifiers trained using variants of a specific gene or a set of genes related to a particular disease perform better than those trained using all variants, due to their higher specificity, despite the smaller training dataset size. In this study, we further investigated the advantages of “gene-specific” machine learning compared to “disease-specific” machine learning. We used 1068 rare (gnomAD minor allele frequency (MAF) BRCA1 and BRCA2 missense variants.
Databáze: OpenAIRE