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National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10(117), p. 5394-5401, 2020

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915680117

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Massively parallel variant characterization identifies NUDT15 alleles associated with thiopurine toxicity

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Abstract

Significance Pharmacogenetics is a prototype of genomics-guided precision medicine. While there is a rapid expansion of novel pharmacogenetic variants discovered by genome sequencing, the lack of variant interpretation in a scalable fashion is a formidable barrier in this field. NUDT15 polymorphism is a major genetic cause for hematopoietic toxicity during thiopurine therapy. Motivated by the need to understand NUDT15 variant effects for clinical actions, we developed a massively parallel assay to preemptively characterize 91.8% of all possible missense variants in NUDT15 . Our function-based variant classification accurately predicted thiopurine toxicity risk alleles in patients. These results vastly improved the ability to implement genotype-guided thiopurine therapy and illustrated the value and potential of a high-throughput variant effect screen in general.