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ArticleThe pharmacogenomics journal2019

An optimized prediction framework to assess the functional impact of pharmacogenetic variants.

Yitian Zhou, Souren Mkrtchian, Masaki Kumondai, Masahiro Hiratsuka, Volker M Lauschke

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Article in The pharmacogenomics journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Yitian ZhouDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section of Pharmacogenetics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
Souren MkrtchianDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section of Pharmacogenetics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
Masaki KumondaiLaboratory of Pharmacotherapy of Life-Style Related Diseases, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Masahiro HiratsukaLaboratory of Pharmacotherapy of Life-Style Related Diseases, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Volker M LauschkeDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Section of Pharmacogenetics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. volker.lauschke@ki.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1140-6204

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 (European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation) 668353Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 2016-01153Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 2016-01154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prediction of phenotypic consequences of mutations constitutes an important aspect of precision medicine. Current computational tools mostly rely on evolutionary conservation and have been calibrated on variants associated with disease, which poses conceptual problems for assessment of variants in poorly conserved pharmacogenes. Here, we evaluated the performance of 18 current functionality prediction methods leveraging experimental high-quality activity data from 337 variants in genes involved in drug metabolism and transport and found that these models only achieved probabilities of 0.1-50.6% to make informed conclusions. We therefore developed a functionality prediction framework optimized for pharmacogenetic assessments that significantly outperformed current algorithms. Our model achieved 93% for both sensitivity and specificity for both loss-of-function and functionally neutral variants, and we confirmed its superior performance using cross validation analyses. This novel model holds promise to improve the translation of personal genetic information into biological conclusions and pharmacogenetic recommendations, thereby facilitating the implementation of Next-Generation Sequencing data into clinical diagnostics.

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Genetic PrivacyAlgorithmsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansInactivation, MetabolicMutation, MissensePharmacogeneticsPharmacogenomic TestingPharmacogenomic VariantsPrecision Medicine

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PMID30206299
PMCPMC6462826

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