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ArticleNature methods2015

Phenolyzer: phenotype-based prioritization of candidate genes for human diseases.

Hui Yang, Peter N Robinson, Kai Wang

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Article in Nature methods, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 267 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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267 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hui YangZilkha Neurogenetic Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Peter N RobinsonInstitute for Medical and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199
Kai WangZilkha Neurogenetic Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Funding

The Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at CHOP/PennU54HD086984 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI SCHULTZ, ROBERT THOMAS · 2016 to 2020
$6.3M
Integrated variation detection annotation and analysis for high-throughout sequeR01HG006465 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI WANG, KAI · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006465NHGRI NIH HHS R01-HG006465NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD086984
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior biological knowledge and phenotype information may help to identify disease genes from human whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing studies. We developed Phenolyzer (http://phenolyzer.usc.edu), a tool that uses prior information to implicate genes involved in diseases. Phenolyzer exhibits superior performance over competing methods for prioritizing Mendelian and complex disease genes, based on disease or phenotype terms entered as free text.

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AlgorithmsDatabases, GeneticBase SequenceChromosome MappingData MiningExomeGenetic Diseases, InbornGenetic MarkersGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome, HumanHumansMolecular Sequence DataPhenotypeSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareGenetic Markers

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PMID26192085
PMCPMC4718403

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