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ArticleHuman mutation2019

MetaDome: Pathogenicity analysis of genetic variants through aggregation of homologous human protein domains.

Laurens Wiel, Coos Baakman, Daan Gilissen, Joris A Veltman, Gerrit Vriend, Christian Gilissen

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Article in Human mutation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 201 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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201citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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201 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 236 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Laurens WielDepartment of Human Genetics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3410-760X
Coos BaakmanCentre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Daan GilissenDepartment of Human Genetics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Joris A VeltmanDepartment of Human Genetics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Gerrit VriendCentre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Christian GilissenDepartment of Human Genetics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLHAN University of Applied Sciences · NL

Funding

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 916-14-043Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 918-15-667Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum R0002793
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing availability of human genetic variation has given rise to novel methods of measuring genetic tolerance that better interpret variants of unknown significance. We recently developed a concept based on protein domain homology in the human genome to improve variant interpretation. For this purpose, we mapped population variation from the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) and pathogenic mutations from the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) onto Pfam protein domains. The aggregation of these variation data across homologous domains into meta-domains allowed us to generate amino acid resolution of genetic intolerance profiles for human protein domains. Here, we developed MetaDome, a fast and easy-to-use web server that visualizes meta-domain information and gene-wide profiles of genetic tolerance. We updated the underlying data of MetaDome to contain information from 56,319 human transcripts, 71,419 protein domains, 12,164,292 genetic variants from gnomAD, and 34,076 pathogenic mutations from ClinVar. MetaDome allows researchers to easily investigate their variants of interest for the presence or absence of variation at corresponding positions within homologous domains. We illustrate the added value of MetaDome by an example that highlights how it may help in the interpretation of variants of unknown significance. The MetaDome web server is freely accessible at https://stuart.radboudumc.nl/metadome.

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Genetic VariationComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome, HumanHumansInternetProtein DomainsProteinsSoftwareStructural Homology, ProteinProteinsClinVargenetic tolerancegenetic variationgnomADmeta-domainspathogenicityPfamprotein domain homologyweb server

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PMID31116477
PMCPMC6772141
OpenAlexW2949860192

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