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Pan-cancer tumour classification and risk stratification from whole-genome somatic variants via dual-task representation learning

2026-03-04 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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Tumour typing from whole-genome sequencing is increasingly accurate, yet molecular subtyping from somatic variants remains challenging because of tumour heterogeneity and inconsistent clinical annotations. Here, we present Mutation-Attention Dual-Task (MuAt2), a Transformer model that jointly classifies histological tumour types and subtypes directly from somatic single-nucleotide variants, indels and structural variants. MuAt2 leverages encoders pre-trained on 2,587 pan-cancer whole genomes, an...

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