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Iris Casselman

Ghent UniversityORCID 0000-0001-8601-3256Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1

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Reproducibility of the evaluation of genetic variant pathogenicity based on the animal variant classification guidelines

Iris Casselman, Carlotta Ferrari, Marie Abitbol, Danika L. Bannasch, Jerold S. Bell, Caroline Dufaure de Citres, Carrie J. Finno, Jessica J. Hayward, Jens U. Häggström, Jason T. Huff, Tosso Leeb, Ingrid Ljungvall, M. Longeri, Leslie A. Lyons, Marcela Martinez, , Bart J. G. Broeckx

This study assesses the reproducibility of pathogenicity classification using the animal variant classification guidelines across three species, finding 65% reproducibility for pathogenicity and 83% clinically relevant agreement.

Animal Genetics · Jun 1, 2026Peer-reviewedGenetics

Variant classification guidelines for animals to objectively evaluate genetic variant pathogenicity

Fréderique Boeykens, Marie Abitbol, Heidi Anderson, Iris Casselman, Caroline Dufaure de Citres, Jessica J. Hayward, Jens U. Häggström, Mark D. Kittleson, Elvio Lepri, Ingrid Ljungvall, M. Longeri, Leslie A. Lyons, Åsa Ohlsson, Luc J. Peelman, Pascale M. Y. Smets, , Bart J. G. Broeckx

This paper develops and validates variant classification guidelines for animals, improving the accuracy of pathogenicity assessment in cats and eight other species.

bioRxiv · Sep 17, 2024 · PreprintGenetics