2008
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-190
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Local conservation scores without a priori assumptions on neutral substitution rates

Abstract: Background: Comparative genomics aims to detect signals of evolutionary conservation as an indicator of functional constraint. Surprisingly, results of the ENCODE project revealed that about half of the experimentally verified functional elements found in non-coding DNA were classified as unconstrained by computational predictions. Following this observation, it has been hypothesized that this may be partly explained by biased estimates on neutral evolutionary rates used by existing sequence conservation metri… Show more

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“…The assumption here is that conservation of the nucleotide is related to the functional importance of it or its resultant amino acid, with higher importance leading to maintenance of the encoded feature without change over time. Some of the more commonly used algorithms are PhastCons and PhyloP (Dingel et al, 2008;Pollard et al, 2010). It is worthwhile noting that prioritization or deprioritization of a variant based on such a conservation score is only appropriate if the score has been calculated across species where the region under analysis performs the same role.…”
Section: 2411mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The assumption here is that conservation of the nucleotide is related to the functional importance of it or its resultant amino acid, with higher importance leading to maintenance of the encoded feature without change over time. Some of the more commonly used algorithms are PhastCons and PhyloP (Dingel et al, 2008;Pollard et al, 2010). It is worthwhile noting that prioritization or deprioritization of a variant based on such a conservation score is only appropriate if the score has been calculated across species where the region under analysis performs the same role.…”
Section: 2411mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The assumption here is that conservation of the nucleotide is related to the functional importance of it or its resultant amino acid, with higher importance leading to maintenance of the encoded feature without change over time. Some of the more commonly used algorithms are PhastCons and PhyloP (Dingel et al, 2008;Pollard, Hubisz, Rosenbloom, & Siepel, 2010). It is worthwhile noting that prioritization or deprioritization of a variant based on such a conservation score is only appropriate if the score has been calculated across species where the region under analysis performs the same role.…”
Section: Class 3: Annotations Supporting Determination Of the Potenti...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With the increased availability of genomic sequences, the evolutionary conservation information can also be yielded from the genomic sequence alignments between multiple organisms [25][26][27]. In this study, we tried to mine informative conservation-based features for improving the prediction accuracy of AS.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%