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concept:variant-of-uncertain-significance-vusvariant of uncertain significance (VUS)
Genetic variants whose clinical impact is unknown; a key motivation for the work, ~2M of which are explained.
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- Disruption profilesassociated_withMechanistic explanation outputs from EVEE showing how variants affect gene function, scored 3.8/5 for explanation quality.
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- variant pathogenicityassociated_withThe property of a genetic variant being disease-causing or benign; the main prediction target.
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- Scale of interpretability output, addressing a major clinical need for VUS resolution.
- Motivating claim that mechanistic explanations add clinical value for VUS.
- Loss balancing using homoscedastic uncertainty.
- The method that predicts and explains variant pathogenicity using Evo 2, producing disruption profiles.
- SAEs uncover safety-relevant representations that might be monitored or controlled.
- Encoding of prediction confidence; proposed role for dopamine beyond reward signalling.
- Core task of predicting whether genetic variants cause disease, central to clinical genomics.