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Regional nonsense constraint offers biological and clinical insights into genetic disease.
Nature communications - 25 Feb 2026
Blakes Alexander J M, Whiffin Nicola, Johnson Colin A, Ellingford Jamie M, Banka Siddharth
Abstract excerpt
Reliably predicting the molecular impact of premature termination codons (PTCs) is essential for the clinical interpretation of "loss-of-function" variants in human disease. Measures of selective constraint can identify genes and genomic regions which are intolerant to deleterious genetic variation. However, existing loss-of-function constraint metrics do not comprehensively account for nonsense-mediated mRNA...
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