Variant pathogenic prediction models VSRFM and VSRFM-s, the importance of splicing and allele frequency

ABSTRACT Currently, there are available several tools to predict the effect of variants, with the aim of classify variants in neutral or pathogenic. In this study, we propose a new model trained over ensemble scores with two particularities, first we consider minor frequency allele from gnomAD and second, we split variants based on their splicing for training each specific model. Variants Stacked Random Forest Model (VSRFM) was constructed for variants not involved in splicing and Variants Stacked Random Forest Model for splicing (VSRFM-s) was trained for variants affected by splicing. Comparing these scores with their constituent scores used as features, our models showed the best outcomes. These results were confirmed using an independent data set from Clinvar database, with similar results.