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ArticleNature communications2025

A large-scale human toxicogenomics resource for drug-induced liver injury prediction.

Volker Bergen, Konstantia Kodella, Sreenath Srikrishnan, Ornella Barrandon, Sara Anderson, Max Rogers-Grazado, Casey Fowler, Hirit Beyene, Nicole Robichaud, Timothy Fulton and 5 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Hepatic responses as potential biomarkers of idiosyncratic drug reaction risk.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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  3. Systematic comparison of temporal hepatotoxicant-induced gene network responses across 3 liver test systems.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Volker BergenCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA. DILImap@cellarity.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2486-1473
Konstantia KodellaCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Sreenath SrikrishnanCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-3930-0725
Ornella BarrandonCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Sara AndersonCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Max Rogers-GrazadoCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Casey FowlerCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Hirit BeyeneCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Nicole RobichaudCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Timothy FultonCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Nina LapchykCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Mauricio CortesCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Nick PlugisCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Matthew GoddeerisCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA.
Mahdi ZamanighomiCellarity Inc., Somerville, MA, USA. mzamanighomi@cellarity.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-2503-5545

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) remains one of the most critical challenges in drug development, causing patient safety concerns, clinical trial failures and drug withdrawals. We introduce ToxPredictor, a toxicogenomics framework combining RNA-seq data from primary human hepatocytes with pharmacokinetic data to predict dose-resolved DILI risks and safety margins. At its core is DILImap, an RNA-seq library tailored for DILI research, comprising 300 compounds at multiple concentrations. ToxPredictor achieves 88% sensitivity at 100% specificity in blind validation, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. It flagged recent phase III clinical failures, including Evobrutinib, TAK-875, and BMS-986142, overlooked by animal studies. Beyond prediction, ToxPredictor provides mechanistic insights into hepatotoxic pathways, enabling early de-risking and actionable safety decisions. Unlike single-endpoint readouts-even from 3D models-transcriptomics offers a multi-dimensional system-level view of hepatocyte responses, capable of detecting diverse DILI mechanisms not captured by conventional assays. Scalable, actionable, and integrated into a broader AI/ML drug discovery platform, this work establishes toxicogenomics as a promising tool for developing safer therapeutics and addressing one of the most pressing challenges in toxicology.

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Chemical and Drug Induced Liver InjuryToxicogeneticsHepatocytesHumansRNA-Seq

Identifiers

PMID41233320
PMCPMC12615732

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