ArticleBioinformatics advances2025
A foundation model for learning genetic associations from brain imaging phenotypes.
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- A systematic review on the generative AI applications in human medical genetics.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Pooled it
- Foundation models in omics research: a comprehensive survey.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026Review
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Abstract
Motivation: Due to the intricate etiology of neurological disorders, finding interpretable associations between multiomics features can be challenging using standard approaches. Results: We propose COMICAL, a contrastive learning approach using multiomics data to generate associations between genetic markers and brain imaging-derived phenotypes. COMICAL jointly learns omics representations utilizing transformer-based encoders with custom tokenizers. Our modality-agnostic approach uniquely identifies many-to-many associations via self-supervised learning schemes and cross-modal attention encoders. COMICAL discovered several significant associations between genetic markers and imaging-derived phenotypes for a variety of neurological disorders in the UK Biobank, as well as prediction of diseases and unseen clinical outcomes from learned representations. Availability and Implementation: The source code of COMICAL along with pretrained weights, enabling transfer learning, is available at https://github.com/IBM/comical.
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