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ArticleCell systems2018

Quantitative Missense Variant Effect Prediction Using Large-Scale Mutagenesis Data.

Vanessa E Gray, Ronald J Hause, Jens Luebeck, Jay Shendure, Douglas M Fowler

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Article in Cell systems, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers.

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119citing papers in PubMed
16.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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119 citing papers in PubMed, 252 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vanessa E GrayDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Ronald J HauseDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Jens LuebeckDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Jay ShendureDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Douglas M FowlerDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: dfowler@uw.edu.
University of Washington · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Interpreting Genetic Variants of Uncertain SignificanceDP1HG007811 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SHENDURE, JAY ASHOK · 2013 to 2017
$3.8M
Large-Scale Methods for Assessing the Consequences of Mutations in ProteinsR01GM109110 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI FOWLER, DOUGLAS M · 2014 to 2021
$2.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS DP1 HG007811NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large datasets describing the quantitative effects of mutations on protein function are becoming increasingly available. Here, we leverage these datasets to develop Envision, which predicts the magnitude of a missense variant's molecular effect. Envision combines 21,026 variant effect measurements from nine large-scale experimental mutagenesis datasets, a hitherto untapped training resource, with a supervised, stochastic gradient boosting learning algorithm. Envision outperforms other missense variant effect predictors both on large-scale mutagenesis data and on an independent test dataset comprising 2,312 TP53 variants whose effects were measured using a low-throughput approach. This dataset was never used for hyperparameter tuning or model training and thus serves as an independent validation set. Envision prediction accuracy is also more consistent across amino acids than other predictors. Finally, we demonstrate that Envision's performance improves as more large-scale mutagenesis data are incorporated. We precompute Envision predictions for every possible single amino acid variant in human, mouse, frog, zebrafish, fruit fly, worm, and yeast proteomes (https://envision.gs.washington.edu/).

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Mutation, MissenseAlgorithmsAnimalsComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticForecastingGenes, p53HumansMachine LearningMutagenesislarge-scale mutagenesismachine learningvariant effect prediction

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PMID29226803
PMCPMC5799033
OpenAlexW2774216375

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