FORGEdb: a tool for identifying candidate functional variants and uncovering target genes and mechanisms for complex diseases.
Genome biology
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| Abstract | The majority of disease-associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies are located outside of protein-coding regions. Prioritizing candidate regulatory variants and gene targets to identify potential biological mechanisms for further functional experiments can be challenging. To address this challenge, we developed FORGEdb ( ; ; and ), a standalone and web-based tool that integrates multiple datasets, delivering information on associated regulatory elements, transcription factor binding sites, and target genes for over 37 million variants. FORGEdb scores provide researchers with a quantitative assessment of the relative importance of each variant for targeted functional experiments. |
| Year of Publication | 2024
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| Journal | Genome biology
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| Volume | 25
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| Issue | 1
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| Pages | 3
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| Date Published | 01/2024
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| ISSN | 1474-760X
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13059-023-03126-1
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| PubMed ID | 38167104
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