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Youssef Barhomi

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)ORCID 0009-0006-6235-9248Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative· 1 shared Amy KrystosikiD· 1 shared Donghui LiiD· 1 shared Francesco Paolo CasaleiD· 1 shared Lakshmi KrishnaniD· 1 shared Sashidhar Guntury· 1 shared Sayan GhosaliD· 1 shared Tejaswini GanapathiiD· 1 shared

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintOct 31, 2025

VariantFormer: A hierarchical transformer integrating DNA sequences with genetic variations and regulatory landscapes for personalized gene expression prediction

Sayan Ghosal, Youssef Barhomi, Tejaswini Ganapathi…·Theofanis Karaletsos

VariantFormer predicts gene expression from diploid genomes, outperforming existing models and improving eQTL effect size estimation across ancestries and tissues.

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humanwhole-genome sequencing

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