Sarah Fazal, Matt C Danzi, Isaac Xu, Shilpa Nadimpalli Kobren, Shamil Sunyaev, Chloe Reuter, Shruti Marwaha, Matthew Wheeler, Egor Dolzhenko, Francesca Lucas, Stefan Wuchty, Mustafa Tekin, Stephan Züchner, Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido
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Abstract
Expansions of tandem repeats (TRs) cause approximately 60 monogenic diseases. We expect that the discovery of additional pathogenic repeat expansions will narrow the diagnostic gap in many diseases. A growing number of TR expansions are being identified, and interpreting them is a challenge. We present RExPRT (Repeat EXpansion Pathogenicity pRediction Tool), a machine learning tool for distinguishing pathogenic from benign TR expansions. Our results demonstrate that an ensemble approach classifies TRs with an average precision of 93% and recall of 83%. RExPRT's high precision will be valuable in large-scale discovery studies, which require prioritization of candidate loci for follow-up studies.
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Genome Biology is a leading research journal that focuses on the study of biology and biomedicine from a genomic and post-genomic standpoint. The journal consistently publishes outstanding research across various areas within these fields.
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