Interpretable DIS+ AI framework for variant pathogenicity

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Autores principales: Hao, Yun, Marvin, Tess
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contents <p dir="ltr">DIS+ is the first disease-specific, AI-informed, and interpretable score for variant pathogenicity. DIS+ provides predictions for genome-wide regulatory variants across more than 100 diseases. DIS+ addresses a central unmet need in precision genomics: moving from disease-agnostic deleteriousness scores to disease-specific pathogenicity. With DIS+, instead of receiving a largely conservation-based assessment of a variant’s generic deleteriousness, researchers obtain a precise, disease-specific pathogenicity score with biochemical feature-level interpretation. </p> <p dir="ltr">Methodologically, DIS+ couples ancestry-informed pre-training with disease-ontology-guided fine-tuning in a visible AI framework reflecting the hierarchical relationship among diseases. Uniquely, DIS+ quantifies variant pathogenicity separately for transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation, capturing disease-specific differences in the molecular mechanisms that drive pathogenesis. DIS+ also offers an interpretation module that computes feature-level attributions across thousands of regulatory features, including transcriptional factors and RNA-binding proteins. This design enables robust performance in data-scarce settings and reveals which regulatory programs drive disease risk. In addition to providing a disease-specific assessment and mechanistic interpretation, DIS+ significantly outperforms widely used, disease-agnostic predictors.</p>
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spellingShingle Interpretable DIS+ AI framework for variant pathogenicity
Hao, Yun
Marvin, Tess
<p dir="ltr">DIS+ is the first disease-specific, AI-informed, and interpretable score for variant pathogenicity. DIS+ provides predictions for genome-wide regulatory variants across more than 100 diseases. DIS+ addresses a central unmet need in precision genomics: moving from disease-agnostic deleteriousness scores to disease-specific pathogenicity. With DIS+, instead of receiving a largely conservation-based assessment of a variant’s generic deleteriousness, researchers obtain a precise, disease-specific pathogenicity score with biochemical feature-level interpretation. </p> <p dir="ltr">Methodologically, DIS+ couples ancestry-informed pre-training with disease-ontology-guided fine-tuning in a visible AI framework reflecting the hierarchical relationship among diseases. Uniquely, DIS+ quantifies variant pathogenicity separately for transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation, capturing disease-specific differences in the molecular mechanisms that drive pathogenesis. DIS+ also offers an interpretation module that computes feature-level attributions across thousands of regulatory features, including transcriptional factors and RNA-binding proteins. This design enables robust performance in data-scarce settings and reveals which regulatory programs drive disease risk. In addition to providing a disease-specific assessment and mechanistic interpretation, DIS+ significantly outperforms widely used, disease-agnostic predictors.</p>
title Interpretable DIS+ AI framework for variant pathogenicity
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17902015