Interpreting Short Tandem Repeat Variations with Genomic Foundation Models in Olive
Feifei Xia, Mohammad Hossein Pakdel, Mehdi Hosseini Mazinani…·Maria O. Anisimova
The paper identifies STR variation in olive and evaluates how genomic language models respond to natural STR length changes, finding consistent embedding perturbations and prioritizing candidate loci linked to oil composition.