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Chris German
dblp:438/7414
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 75% Medical and health informatics · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › genomics › machine learning for genomics
deep learning for genomics |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual Genotypes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Medical and health informatics › clinical prediction
disease risk prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual Genotypes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
genomics |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual Genotypes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › statistical genetics › genomic prediction
polygenic risk prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual Genotypes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transformer · 0.9neighborhood attention · 0.9multi-task learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual GenotypesabstractPredicting disease risk from DNA presents an unprecedented emerging challenge as biobanks approach population scale sizes ($N>10^6$ individuals) with ultra-high-dimensional features ($L>10^5$ genotypes). Current methods, often linear and reliant on summary statistics, fail to capture complex genetic interactions and discard valuable individual-level information. We introduce **PRSformer**, a scalable deep learning architecture designed for end-to-end, multitask disease prediction directly from million-scale individual genotypes. PRSformer employs neighborhood attention, achieving linear $O(L)$ complexity per layer, making Transformers tractable for genome-scale inputs. Crucially, PRSformer utilizes a stacking of these efficient attention layers, progressively increasing the effective receptive field to model local dependencies (e.g., within linkage disequilibrium blocks) before integrating information across wider genomic regions. This design, tailored for genomics, allows PRSformer to learn complex, potentially non-linear and long-range interactions directly from raw genotypes. We demonstrate PRSformer's effectiveness using a unique large private cohort ($N \approx 5$M) for predicting 18 autoimmune and inflammatory conditions using $L \approx 140$k variants. PRSformer significantly outperforms highly optimized linear models trained on the *same individual-level data* and state-of-the-art summary-statistic-based methods (LDPred2) derived from the *same cohort*, quantifying the benefits of non-linear modeling and multitask learning at scale. Furthermore, experiments reveal that the advantage of non-linearity emerges primarily at large sample sizes ($N > 1$M), and that a multi-ancestry trained model improves generalization, establishing PRSformer as a new framework for deep learning in population-scale genomics. Payam Dibaeinia, Chris German, Suyash Shringarpure, Adam Auton, Aly Azeem Khan |
NeurIPS | 2 |