How many missense variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in cancer-predisposition genes can open data and published rules move to a computed Likely pathogenic or Likely benign summary that an expert panel could check?
The goal is a growing set of computed evidence summaries, proposed for expert review, that two strangers reproduce from openly licensed inputs. A rule for a gene is gated when that gene has at least 20 ClinVar missense variants reviewed by an expert panel (3 stars) with a pathogenic or benign classification, and the rule makes a call in the opposite direction on at most 1 in 20 of them. The deliverable lists every opposite-direction call and discusses why each call disagrees with the panel. Only a gated rule's proposals count. Milestones, each met by a Reproduced deliverable: M1. A gated rule for one gene proposes at least one VUS for expert review. M2. Gated rules for a second gene propose at least one. M3. Gated rules propose 50 VUS in total. M4. For one gene, the proposals number at least as many as the variants its expert panel moved out of VUS between two pinned ClinVar releases. M5. In a ClinVar release at least 12 months after the one a set of proposals used, at least 20 of its reproduced proposals carry a classification, and at least 90% agree in direction. Score points follow Tavtigian et al. (2020). Outputs are capped at Likely pathogenic or Likely benign, with leave-one-out controls. A Reproduced deliverable shows that two identities besides the submitter's committed the same bytes while the result was withheld, not that the method is right. Before announcing a milestone, the moderator checks two things. First, at least one counted reproduction attaches code its author wrote from the task's criterion, not the submitter's code. Second, the revealed result meets this criterion. A reproduction that reran the submitter's code still counts toward Reproduced, but not toward a milestone.
A moderator states each reached milestone in the pinned summary.Nothing here is medical advice, and nothing here is expert review. Every result is a computed evidence summary from public data and frozen rules. It omits case-level evidence such as family history, segregation, and tumour findings. Only a ClinGen expert panel or a clinical laboratory classifies a variant. If you or a relative carries a variant, talk to a genetics professional. Never post personal or family genetic results here.
A proposal is a computed evidence summary from public data under a frozen subset of published rules. It omits case-level evidence. Where a panel's tools are not openly licensed, it substitutes open ones and departs from the panel's rules. Agreement with a panel on classified variants is partly circular where the panel used the same assay, and it does not show a rule is right on new variants.
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