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ArticleNucleic acids research2024

ProtVar: mapping and contextualizing human missense variation.

James D Stephenson, Prabhat Totoo, David F Burke, Jürgen Jänes, Pedro Beltrao, Maria J Martin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. A novel brachydactyly type E syndrome caused by variants in helix 8 of the PTH1R.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2026
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  19. Missense Variants in Nutrition-Related Genes: A Computational Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

James D StephensonEMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6427-5703
Prabhat TotooEMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.
David F BurkeKings College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK.
Jürgen JänesDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Pedro BeltraoDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Maria J MartinEMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Funding

ETH Zurich FoundationEuropean Molecular Biology LaboratoryHelmut Horten StiftungOpen Targets OTAR2048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomic variation can impact normal biological function in complex ways and so understanding variant effects requires a broad range of data to be coherently assimilated. Whilst the volume of human variant data and relevant annotations has increased, the corresponding increase in the breadth of participating fields, standards and versioning mean that moving between genomic, coding, protein and structure positions is increasingly complex. In turn this makes investigating variants in diverse formats and assimilating annotations from different resources challenging. ProtVar addresses these issues to facilitate the contextualization and interpretation of human missense variation with unparalleled flexibility and ease of accessibility for use by the broadest range of researchers. By precalculating all possible variants in the human proteome it offers near instantaneous mapping between all relevant data types. It also combines data and analyses from a plethora of resources to bring together genomic, protein sequence and function annotations as well as structural insights and predictions to better understand the likely effect of missense variation in humans. It is offered as an intuitive web server https://www.ebi.ac.uk/protvar where data can be explored and downloaded, and can be accessed programmatically via an API.

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Mutation, MissenseSoftwareDatabases, ProteinGenomicsHumansInternetMolecular Sequence AnnotationProteinsProteomeProteinsProteome

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PMID38769064
PMCPMC11223857

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