The incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer (EO-CRC; diagnosed before age 50 years) is increasing worldwide. Although current data indicate that EO-CRC may be biologically distinct from average-onset CRC (AO-CRC; diagnosed at age ≥50 years), molecular differences remain poorly defined. To address this knowledge gap,...
Caroline B. M. Porter, Shane P. Murphy, Jules Cazaubiel et al.· Nature Medicine· 0 citations
Most disease-associated genetic variants lie in non-coding regions1,2, yet mechanistic insights are limited by the lack of an empirical framework for characterizing the molecular consequences of regulatory variation. Single-cell molecular quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping3,4 connects variants to gene regulation bu...
Masahiro Kanai, T. Delorey, Jarno Honkanen et al.· Nature· 2 citations
TissueFormer is introduced, a framework for pretraining foundation models with linear rather than quadratic computational complexity, overcoming a long-standing barrier to modeling long-range dependencies at scale.