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| author | Kenneweg, Philip Dandinasivara, Raghuram Luo, Xiao Hammer, Barbara Schönhuth, Alexander |
| author_facet | Kenneweg, Philip Dandinasivara, Raghuram Luo, Xiao Hammer, Barbara Schönhuth, Alexander |
| contents | In this paper, we introduce the first diffusion model designed to generate complete synthetic human genotypes, which, by standard protocols, one can straightforwardly expand into full-length, DNA-level genomes. The synthetic genotypes mimic real human genotypes without just reproducing known genotypes, in terms of approved metrics. When training biomedically relevant classifiers with synthetic genotypes, accuracy is near-identical to the accuracy achieved when training classifiers with real data. We further demonstrate that augmenting small amounts of real with synthetically generated genotypes drastically improves performance rates. This addresses a significant challenge in translational human genetics: real human genotypes, although emerging in large volumes from genome wide association studies, are sensitive private data, which limits their public availability. Therefore, the integration of additional, insensitive data when striving for rapid sharing of biomedical knowledge of public interest appears imperative. |
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| spellingShingle | Generating Synthetic Genotypes using Diffusion Models Kenneweg, Philip Dandinasivara, Raghuram Luo, Xiao Hammer, Barbara Schönhuth, Alexander Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science In this paper, we introduce the first diffusion model designed to generate complete synthetic human genotypes, which, by standard protocols, one can straightforwardly expand into full-length, DNA-level genomes. The synthetic genotypes mimic real human genotypes without just reproducing known genotypes, in terms of approved metrics. When training biomedically relevant classifiers with synthetic genotypes, accuracy is near-identical to the accuracy achieved when training classifiers with real data. We further demonstrate that augmenting small amounts of real with synthetically generated genotypes drastically improves performance rates. This addresses a significant challenge in translational human genetics: real human genotypes, although emerging in large volumes from genome wide association studies, are sensitive private data, which limits their public availability. Therefore, the integration of additional, insensitive data when striving for rapid sharing of biomedical knowledge of public interest appears imperative. |
| title | Generating Synthetic Genotypes using Diffusion Models |
| topic | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03278 |