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SyMetrics: An Integrated Machine Learning Model for Evaluating the Pathogenicity of Synonymous Variants in the Human Genome

2025-03-23 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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Synonymous single nucleotide variants (sSNVs), traditionally seen as neutral, are now recognized for their biological impact. To assess their relevance, we developed SyMetrics, a framework that integrates predictors of splicing, RNA stability, evolutionary conservation, codon usage, synonymous variation effects, sequence properties, and allele frequency. We analyzed all possible sSNVs across the human genome, and our machine-learning model achieved 97% accuracy in distinguishing deleterious from...

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