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One mechanism by which noncoding single nucleotide variants (SNVs) influence downstream phenotypes is through the regulation of gene expression. Methods to predict whether or not individual SNVs are likely to regulate gene expression would aid interpretation of variants of unknown significance identified in whole-genome sequencing studies.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We developed FIRE (Functional Inference of Regulators of Expression), a tool to score both noncoding and coding SNVs based on their potential to regulate the expression levels of nearby genes. FIRE consists of 23 random forests trained to recognize SNVs in cis-expression quantitative trait loci (cis-eQTLs) using a set of 92 genomic annotations as predictive features. FIRE scores discriminate cis-eQTL SNVs from non-eQTL SNVs in the training set with a cross-validated area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.807, and discriminate cis-eQTL SNVs shared across six populations of different ancestry from non-eQTL SNVs with an AUC of 0.939. FIRE scores are also predictive of cis-eQTL SNVs across a variety of tissue types.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>FIRE scores for genome-wide SNVs in hg19\/GRCh37 are available for download at https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/fireregulatoryvariation\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btx534","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,23]],"date-time":"2017-08-23T19:29:56Z","timestamp":1503516596000},"page":"3895-3901","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":41,"title":["FIRE: functional inference of genetic variants that regulate gene expression"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Nilah M","family":"Ioannidis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Joe R","family":"Davis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Marianne K","family":"DeGorter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Nicholas B","family":"Larson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA"}]},{"given":"Shannon K","family":"McDonnell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA"}]},{"given":"Amy J","family":"French","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA"}]},{"given":"Alexis J","family":"Battle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA"}]},{"given":"Trevor J","family":"Hastie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Stephen N","family":"Thibodeau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA"}]},{"given":"Stephen B","family":"Montgomery","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Carlos D","family":"Bustamante","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Weiva","family":"Sieh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Population Health Science & Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"},{"name":"Department of Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA"}]},{"given":"Alice S","family":"Whittemore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020207013517900_btx534-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"248","DOI":"10.1038\/nmeth0410-248","article-title":"A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations","volume":"7","author":"Adzhubei","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nat. 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