Summary
This review article examines the emerging challenge of translating genetic variant discovery into functional understanding of disease mechanisms. The authors discuss rationale, methods, and applications for characterising variant impact at scale using patient tissues and in vitro systems, with increasing clinical deployment. They argue that improved functional variant interpretation will substantially advance disease diagnosis, risk prediction, and therapeutic development.
UK applicability
The methodological frameworks and functional variant interpretation approaches discussed are broadly applicable to UK genomic medicine and clinical genetics practice. UK healthcare systems and research institutions increasingly use these methods in clinical settings, particularly within NHS genomic medicine services.
Key measures
Functional variant interpretation methods; molecular and cellular effects of genetic variants; disease risk prediction; diagnostic accuracy
Outcomes reported
The paper reviews methods for characterising how genetic variants influence phenotypes and disease risk through molecular and cellular effects. It synthesises approaches using patient tissue samples and in vitro models to dissect variant mechanisms across human cell types.
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