PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Developing a variant effect predictor for multiple missense variants…

Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

Institution: University of Exeter
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 The studentship will provide funding of fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.
Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

About this position

Context : Genome sequencing is becoming increasingly widespread in both research and diagnostics, and over a million people have already had their genomes sequenced. However, interpreting the effect of genetic variants is challenging and frequently delays diagnosis in patients with rare genetic diseases. The number of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in clinical databases is growing exponentially, and >70% of them are missense variants, i.e. where one amino acid in a protein sequence is replaced with another. Numerous computational variant effect predictors (VEPs) have been developed t

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTL148/phd-studentship-developing-a-variant-effect-predictor-for-multiple-missense-variants-in-the-same-protein-molecule-to-aid-clinical-interpretation

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