feat(ml): train a real model, and report the number that matters rather than the flattering one
"Variants are unscored" was accurate: nothing was ever trained, so a quarter of every rank was dead weight and the UI leaked a connection error at the reader. - scripts/make-training-set.sh derives a training table from ClinVar directly. ClinVar already carries the molecular consequence, the gene and an allele frequency, which is the feature set serving sends, so this avoids running VEP over hundreds of thousands of variants. 2-star records only. - train.py now holds out whole genes (GroupShuffleSplit). docs/data.md had said to do this since the data pass; the code was still doing a random split, which is the leak Grimm 2015 describes. - evaluate() reports missense on its own. On the last run: AUROC 0.986 over 74,239 held-out variants, but 0.872 over the 13,553 missense ones, and the docs say plainly why even that is flattered — within missense the only live feature is allele frequency, and ClinVar's benign calls often use allele frequency as evidence (ACMG BA1/BS1), so the feature partly caused the label. - the 503 now names what is missing (model@alias via tracking URI) and leaves the exception in the server log instead of the UI. - make training-set / make train; the 58 MB table is gitignored. Verified end to end: model registered as v2, the simulated NF2 case scores 0.999 on the planted variant, and it now ranks 1.00 with all four components live. Tests: api 77, ml 22, loader 16, web 32; ruff, mypy, svelte-check clean.
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gnomAD and the rarity term stops discriminating. Fine for showing the mechanics; use the cache for
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anything you would quote.
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## The model, and what its numbers mean
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`make training-set` builds a training table straight from ClinVar rather than running VEP over
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hundreds of thousands of variants: ClinVar already carries the molecular consequence (`MC`), the
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gene (`GENEINFO`) and an allele frequency (`AF_EXAC`), which is the feature set serving sends.
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Only 2-star-and-above records are kept. `make train` then fits LightGBM and points the
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`production` alias at the new version.
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The last run: 312,025 training and 74,239 held-out variants across 7,728 and 1,932 genes, with no
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gene on both sides.
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| | AUROC | AUPRC |
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| all held-out variants | 0.986 | 0.954 |
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| missense only (13,553) | 0.872 | 0.725 |
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Three things to say before anyone quotes the headline number:
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1. **0.986 mostly measures how separable ClinVar's classes are by consequence.** Its pathogenic set
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is largely loss of function and its benign set largely is not, so a model handed the consequence
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class does well without knowing anything hard. That is why the missense row exists: missense is
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where interpretation is actually difficult.
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2. **Even 0.872 is flattered by circularity.** Within missense, every row has the same consequence
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and impact and no CADD or AlphaMissense score, so allele frequency is doing nearly all the work
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— and ClinVar's benign calls frequently *use* allele frequency as evidence (ACMG BA1/BS1). The
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feature partly caused the label.
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3. **It is not comparable to published CADD or AlphaMissense numbers.** Those are trained and
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evaluated on different data. A fair comparison scores the same held-out rows with all three,
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which needs the plugin data (see above) and is the obvious next step.
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## Evaluating the model honestly
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The model trains on ClinVar labels and is scored on ClinVar-labelled variants, which is exactly
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@@ -69,7 +99,8 @@ where published benchmarks go wrong. What to do about it:
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2. **Split by gene, not by variant.** Random splits put variants from the same gene on both sides,
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and a model can then score a gene rather than a variant. Grimm et al. showed this inflates
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reported accuracy for exactly this class of tool: *Hum Mutat* 36:513–523, 2015.
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[10.1002/humu.22768](https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.22768)
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[10.1002/humu.22768](https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.22768) *Implemented*:
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`rarelens_ml.train.split_by_gene` holds out whole genes.
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3. **Prefer a time-based holdout.** Train on an older ClinVar release (monthly archives live under
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`vcf_GRCh38/archive_2.0/`) and test only on variants classified after that date. This is the
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closest thing to a prospective evaluation available without new patients.
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