Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Cancer-driving mutations are enriched in genic regions intolerant to germline variation Large reference datasets of protein-coding variation in human populations have allowed us to determine which genes and genic sub-regions are intolerant to germline genetic variation. There is also a growing number of genes implicated in severe Mendelian diseases that overlap with genes implicated in cancer. Here, we hypothesized that mitotically mutable genic sub-regions that are intolerant to germline variation are enriched for cancer-driving mutations. We introduce a new metric, OncMTR, which uses 125,748 exomes in the gnomAD database to identify genic sub-regions intolerant to germline variation but enriched for hematologic somatic variants. We demonstrate that OncMTR can significantly predict driver mutations implicated in hematologic malignancies. Divergent OncMTR regions were enriched for cancer-relevant protein domains, and overlaying OncMTR scores on protein structures identified functionally important protein residues. Finally, we performed a rare variant, gene-based collapsing analysis on an independent set of 394,694 exomes from the UK Biobank and find that OncMTR dramatically improves genetic signals for hematologic malignancies. Our web app enables easy visualization of OncMTR scores for each protein-coding gene (https://astrazeneca-cgr-publications.github.io/OncMTR-Viewer/).
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The categories of this paper are: ecology
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The categories of this paper are: biochemistry
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The categories of this paper are: cell
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The categories of this paper are: pathology
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The categories of this paper are: communication
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The categories of this paper are: cognition
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The categories of this paper are: developmental
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: toxicology
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic