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  "abstract": "Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder. Advances in genetic research, particularly whole-exome sequencing studies, have identified an increasing number of ASD risk genes, especially through large-effect rare variant analyses. However, current rare-variant studies still have limited power to recover the full spectrum of ASD risk genes, leaving a substantial gap between known genes and the estimated genetic architecture of ASD. To address this challenge, we developed Deep-MOTIFs (Multi-Omics inTegratIon For autiSm), a Bayesian-guided positive-unlabeled deep learning framework for multi-omics integration that combines genetic, transcriptomic, and protein-interaction evidence for genome-wide ASD risk-gene prioritization. Deep-MOTIFs achieved stronger performance than existing methods across held-out ASD gene prediction, top-ranked prioritization, positive-label efficiency, and label-noise robustness analyses. Functional enrichment and genome-wide decile analyses further supported the biological relevance of the top-ranked candidates, showing convergence on ASD-related phenotypic annotations and synaptic, neurodevelopmental, and chromatin-regulatory mechanisms. Together, these results support Deep-MOTIFs as a robust framework for ASD risk-gene prioritization under incomplete supervision. Source code is available at: https://github.com/shan-team/Deep-MOTIFs.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "Department of Community Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, Marquette University, 1801 West Wisconsin Avenue, 53233 WI, United States.",
    "Foxconn, Milwaukee, WI, United States.",
    "Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Marquette University, 1313 West Wisconsin Avenue, 53233 WI, United States.",
    "Department of Computer Science, Liberty University, 1971 University Boulevard, 24515 VA, United States."
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      "name": "Wenhui Sheng"
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      "name": "Nathanael Chu"
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  "pdf_url": "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13704786?pdf=render",
  "pmcid": "PMC13704786",
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  "published": "2026-09-01",
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  "title": "Integrating multi-omics data through deep learning with applications to autism risk gene prioritization.",
  "title_text": "Integrating multi-omics data through deep learning with applications to autism risk gene prioritization.",
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  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:22:02Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/7xqhd3apxr3d5",
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