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Scutari, M.

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A Pipeline for Predicting Variant Associations with Complex Disorders via Functional Annotations

The study of complex disorders is limited by the lack of structured data sets that integrate genetic association signals with rich functional annotations. While genome wide association studies (GWAS) provide large collections of associated variants, these are heterogeneous, studydependent, and not directly suitable for machine learning applications. Although frameworks such as Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD) offer comprehensive variant-level features, there is no standardised procedure to construct curated, balanced, and reproducible data sets for the systematic study of complex traits. We introduce a scalable and reproducible pipeline for generating CADD-annotated variant data sets associated with complex disorders defined via Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) terms. The pipeline integrates GWAS summary statistics, genome mapping, chromosomestratified negative sampling, and large-scale annotation, while addressing class imbalance and feature redundancy. The resulting data sets provide curated, balanced, and annotation-rich representations of variant-trait associations, suitable for statistical learning, systematic model evaluation and comparison, and analysis of functional annotation contributions and interactions.

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Causal assessment of gene regulatory network in single-cell transcriptomics data based on Bayesian networks

Gene regulatory network (GRN) inference is an essential tool for revealing dysregulated relationships between genes in different cell types from single-cell transcriptomic (SCT) data. GRNs based on Bayesian networks (BNs) learned from SCT data can elucidate directed regulatory relationships representing complex disease mechanisms and their interplay through graphical modeling. However, software for learning BNs from SCT data is not widely available, nor is evaluating the BNs structural accuracy in representing causal relationships between genes. Here, we describe the scstruc R package. This package provides a suite of BN structure learning algorithms specifically designed for handling SCT data; evaluating the resulting networks based on the causal relationships they represent regardless of the availability of established molecular interaction networks; and comparing regulatory relationships between conditions. We demonstrated that scstruc can identify biologically relevant differential regulatory relationships between groups on a per-cell basis. The package is available at https://github.com/noriakis/scstruc.

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