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The G2PT Model: Bridging the Gap Between Genotype and Phenotype Using Hierarchical Transformers
ByAnchal Negi December 11, 2024October 22, 2026

Gaining insight into the peculiar relationship between the genes we possess and the characteristics they express is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing quests in biology. Understanding the relationship between genotype and phenotype can benefit medicine, agriculture, and evolutionism. Researchers from the University of California at San Diego have offered a compelling solution to this problem…

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Understanding FlexLMM: A Nextflow Framework for Genome-Wide Association Studies
ByNeermita Bhattacharya October 14, 2024October 22, 2026

Genome-wide association Studies (GWAS) consider sequencing the DNA of a person and then comparing it with a population to find genetic markers associated with a disease or trait, and this is why they have become an integral part of modern genomics. However, the ongoing development of GWAS has led to the growth of problems associated…

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Unlocking the Genetic Basis of PTSD: Discovery of 95 Loci Reveal Neurobiological Underpinnings of Trauma and Stress
ByDeotima Chakraborty April 26, 2024October 22, 2026

When compared to other mental conditions, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a lower discoverability rate. A meta-analysis encompassing many ancestries, including European, African, and Native American, revealed 95 relevant sites across the genome and 43 putative causative genes. These genes are categorized as developmental factors, immunological or endocrine regulators, neurotransmitter and ion channel synaptic modulators,…

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NIH’s All of Us Research Program Unveils 275 Million New Genetic Variants, Boosting Precision Medicine Efforts
ByAnchal Negi February 23, 2024October 22, 2026

The All of Us Research Program, with its ambitious objective of creating a diverse cohort of one million volunteers and making their data available for research, has enormous potential for revealing new information about human health and illness. Researchers have discovered more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variants, identified from data shared by nearly…

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MIT’s iPGS: A New Inclusive Polygenic Scoring Model Revolutionizes Disease Risk Assessment for Diverse Populations
BySwasti Tyagi November 11, 2023November 11, 2023

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) computer scientists developed iPGS, a model that gives accurate polygenic score calculations for the genetic makeup of individuals belonging to diverse ancestral backgrounds. Diversity in human beings can be attributed to the 0.1% of DNA that varies across individuals. It determines the phenotypes that would be expressed as well as…

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Alignment-Based DNA Language Models: The GPN-MSA Approach Enables Accurate Genome-wide Variant Effect Prediction
BySonal Keni October 29, 2023October 28, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of biology, researchers around the world aim to unlock the secrets held in the genetic code. With the introduction of whole genome sequencing, a new world was opened to science: one where genetic blueprints could be unraveled and studied with ease. Recently, the impact of genome-wide variants on human pathophysiology has…

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Beyond Biopsies: Single-Molecule Cell-Free DNA Profiling Fuels Non-Invasive Cancer Screening and Detection
ByNeegar Naushaba Iqbal July 30, 2023July 30, 2023

A new ray of hope for non-invasive cancer detection has emerged. A machine learning algorithm called GEMINI, created by John Hopkins University and Boston University researchers, can effectively diagnose cancer patients using CT scans, even in the early stages (stages I and II), without intrusive treatments like biopsies. This model focuses on the DNA changes…

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Broad’s Scientist Introduce a Machine Learning Model to Identify Genetic Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases
BySipra Das May 3, 2023May 7, 2023

Using the heart as an investigational model, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have designed an autoencoder-based machine-learning pipeline that can effectively predict a patient’s heart condition based on image data from ECGs and MRIs. The approach could also be used to detect markers related to cardiovascular diseases. Nearly all areas of…

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Deep Learning on Retinal Images: Google’s Aging Clock ‘eyeAge’ Unlocks the Secrets of Aging
ByBanhita Maitra April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

Google scientists have developed a novel aging clock based on retinal images using deep learning techniques called “eyeAge.” The biological clock is often said to vary from chronological age for an individual and has been previously studied extensively using predictive aging clocks based on biomarkers such as DNA methylation. These often require blood samples and…

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Whole-Genome Population Genomics Made Easy with “PRAWNS”: A Comprehensive Tool for Multiple-genome Analysis
ByBanhita Maitra February 22, 2023February 22, 2023

Scientists from the University of Maryland have developed PRAWNS, a scalable and efficient tool for multi-genome analysis. With the unprecedented number of complete and nearly complete genomes being accessible, researchers interested in understanding the genomic basis of phenotypes, such as antibiotic resistance in bacteria, require computational tools capable of performing multiple genome comparisons efficiently. However,…

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AGORA2: The Key to Personalized Medicine through Genome-wide Metabolic Reconstruction of Human Microbes
BySejal Saxena February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

The digestive system is home to trillions of bacteria, which are very different in each person based on their gender, age, race, lifestyle, and health. For precision medicine to include microbial metabolism, computer models would have to be expandable and able to resolve strains and molecules. This study introduces us to AGORA2 – assembly of…

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Exploring the Intersection of Genomics and Phenomics in the Study of Body Mass Index Reveals a Complex Disease Network
ByRiya Vishwakarma January 8, 2023January 20, 2023

The relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and several health issues that have an influence on morbidity and mortality has been the focus of research by epidemiologists and scientists with roots in China and the USA. The possibility to further our understanding of the breadth and depth of illnesses connected to obesity exists in the…

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CLIMB – A New Statistical Method for Improved Large Scale Genomic Data Analysis
ByShwetha S November 17, 2022November 29, 2022

Researchers from Penn State University present CLIMB (Composite Likelihood eMpirical Bayes), a statistical tool that discovers patterns of condition specificity in a given genomic data. It also provides a generic framework for a variety of investigations, such as aggregating genomic features with comparable condition-specific patterns. CLIMB outperforms the existing options in statistical precision while capturing…

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A Novel Deep Learning Framework Identifies Gene-Gene Interactions for a Given Phenotype
ByShwetha S November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

A deep learning framework has been developed by researchers under the direction of Tianyu Cui, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, to identify the gene-gene interactions underlying a given phenotype by taking into account all single nucleotide polymorphisms within a set of genes or complex interactions and calculating their…

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A New Approach ‘HI-CNV’ Elucidates the Effects of Copy Number Variation on Human Genome and Health
ByMahi Sharma November 3, 2022November 4, 2022

A team of researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School has demonstrated a computational technique called Hi-CNV to identify millions of copy number variants harboring in the human genome and link them to health-related traits such as height, lipid levels, and bone density by imposing…

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Single-cell RNA Sequencing and GWAS Data Integration Discover New Disease Cell Types and Pathways
ByShwetha S October 18, 2022October 18, 2022

A brand-new framework called sc-linker has been proposed by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard that connects human illness and phenotypes to different cell types and physiological processes. This is done by integrating Genome-Wide Association Studies summary statistics, epigenomic data, and single-cell RNA (scRNAseq) sequence data from multiple tissues, cells, diseases, and…

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A New Study Reveals the Landscape and Evolution of Nuclear-Mitochondrial Segments
ByShwetha S October 8, 2022October 8, 2022

Researchers from Cambridge University have reported the presence of nuclear-mitochondrial segments (NUMT) in a sample population of 66,083 people with 12,509 cancer samples. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of the samples observed de novo NUMT of one in every 10^4 births and one in every 10^3 cancers, indicating that DNA translocation is a continuing process. Endosymbiosis…

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Genebass – A New Online Resource that Links Rare Genetic Variants to Human Health and Disease
BySrishti Sharma August 20, 2022October 22, 2026

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed Genebass, a free online browser that will assist other researchers and clinicians studying specific genes in linking rare genetic variants with disease phenotypes. Genebass represents a genetic analysis of nearly 400,000 people from the UK Biobank and may assist researchers in identifying potential novel therapeutic…

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Transcriptome-Wide Association Studies Integrated with 3D Genomic and Epigenomic Data used to Improve Target Gene Discovery and Drug Repurposing
ByTanveen Kaur June 13, 2022October 22, 2026

Scientists from Pennsylvania State University integrated 3D genomic and epigenomic data with transcriptome-wide association studies data to improve gene expression predictions. The researchers propose an integrative method PUMICE that integrates 3D genomic and epigenomic data with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) to predict gene expressions more accurately. An extension of the method PUMICE +, also combines transcriptome-wide…

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First Cell Transcriptomic Atlas of a Non-Human Primate Completed by an International Team Led by BGI
ByDr. Tamanna Anwar April 15, 2022June 18, 2022

Researchers from BGI-Research, in collaboration with scientific research teams from China, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, published the world’s first non-human primate whole-body cell transcriptomic atlas in the scientific journal Nature this week, in a breakthrough that could lead to scientific advancement in the treatment of human diseases. The study will…

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Population-Based Analysis of Over 200,000 People Displays Strong Genetic Relationship with Multiple Cardiometabolic Diseases and Traits
ByDr. Tamanna Anwar February 28, 2022June 18, 2022

Researchers looked at data from over 200,000 people and discovered unusual genetic variations linked to diseases including diabetes and heart failure. Last year, the UK Biobank containing a large-scale collection of genetic and health information from half a million UK participants released additional protein sequence data (exome data). After analyzing whole-exome sequencing data from around…

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