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ArticleNature genetics2025

Proteome-wide model for human disease genetics.

Rose Orenbuch, Courtney A Shearer, Aaron W Kollasch, Aviv D Spinner, Thomas Hopf, Lood van Niekerk, Dinko Franceschi, Mafalda Dias, Jonathan Frazer, Debora S Marks

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Article in Nature genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Rose OrenbuchDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Courtney A ShearerDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Aaron W KollaschDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9733-8822
Aviv D SpinnerDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Thomas HopfScientific Consulting, Erding, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7476-9539
Lood van NiekerkDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Dinko FranceschiDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Mafalda DiasCentre for Genomic Regulation, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain. mafalda.dias@crg.eu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1804-8542
Jonathan FrazerCentre for Genomic Regulation, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain. jonathan.frazer@crg.eu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-6484
Debora S MarksDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. deboramarks@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9388-2281

Funding

Making antibody generation rapid, scalable, and democratic through machine learning and continuous evolutionR01CA260415 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI KRUSE, ANDREW, LIU, CHANG C · 2020 to 2024
$8.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA260415
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Missense variants remain a challenge in genetic interpretation owing to their subtle and context-dependent effects. Although current prediction models perform well in known disease genes, their scores are not calibrated across the proteome, limiting generalizability. To address this knowledge gap, we developed popEVE, a deep generative model combining evolutionary and human population data to estimate variant deleteriousness on a proteome-wide scale. popEVE achieves state-of-the-art performance without overestimating the burden of deleterious variants and identifies variants in 442 genes in a severe developmental disorder cohort, including 123 novel candidates. These genes are functionally similar to known disease genes, and their variants often localize to critical regions. Remarkably, popEVE can prioritize likely causal variants using only child exomes, enabling diagnosis even without parental sequencing. This work provides a generalizable framework for rare disease variant interpretation, especially in singleton cases, and demonstrates the utility of calibrated, evolution-informed scoring models for clinical genomics.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseModels, GeneticProteomeExomeHumansMutation, MissenseProteome

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PMID41286104
PMCPMC12695638

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