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The "Prediction Scores" container track contains subtracks showing the results of variant impact prediction
scores. Usually these are prediction algorithms that use protein features, conservation, nucleotide composition and similar
signals to determine if a genome variant is pathogenic or not.
BayesDel - Only hg19
BayesDel is a deleteriousness meta-score for coding and non-coding variants, single nucleotide
variants, and small insertion/deletions. The range of the score is from -1.29334 to 0.75731.
The higher the score, the more likely the variant is pathogenic.
MaxAF stands for maximum allele frequency. The old ACMG (American College of Medical Genetics and
Genomics) rules utilize allele frequency to classify variants, so the "BayesDel without MaxAF"
tracks were created to avoid double-dipping. However, new ACMG rules will not include allele
frequency, so it is okay to use the "BayesDel with MaxAF" for variant classification in the future.
For gene discovery research, it is better to use BayesDel with MaxAF.
For gene discovery research, a universal cutoff value (0.0692655 with MaxAF, -0.0570105 without
MaxAF) was obtained by maximizing sensitivity and specificity in classifying ClinVar variants;
Version 1 (build date 2017-08-24).
For clinical variant classification, Bayesdel thresholds have been calculated for a variant to
reach various levels of evidence; please refer to Pejaver et al. 2022 for general application
of these scores in clinical applications.
M-CAP - Only hg19
Interpretation: The authors define that at an M-CAP score > 0.025, 5% of
pathogenic variants are misclassified as benign. 0.025 is the recommended cutoff.
The Mendelian Clinically Applicable Pathogenicity (M-CAP)
score (Jagadeesh et al, Nat Genetics 2016) is a
pathogenicity likelihood score that aims to misclassify no more than 5% of
pathogenic variants while aggressively reducing the list of variants of
uncertain significance. Much like allele frequency, M-CAP is readily
interpreted; if it classifies a variant as benign, then that variant can be
trusted to be benign with high confidence.
At an M-CAP score > 0.025, 5% of pathogenic variants are misclassified as benign.
The score varies from 0.0 - 1.0, following a geometric distribution with a mean of 0.09.
MutScore - hg38/hg19
Interpretation: The authors defined the thresholds <0.140 for a variant
to be benign, and > 0.730 for pathogenic with 95% confidence.
The within-gene clustering of pathogenic and benign DNA changes is an important
feature of the human exome.
MutScore
score (Quinodoz, AJHG 2022) integrates qualitative features of
DNA substitutions with new additional information derived from
positional clustering. Variants of unknown significance that are scored
as benign by other algorithms but located close to known pathogenic variants
should be weighted more pathogenic by MutScore. The score ranges from 0.0-1.0, resembles
a negative binomial distribution with a maximum ~0.05, depending on the nucleotide.
MutScore was seen to outperform other scores by papers Porretta et al and Brock et al.
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