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ReviewGenome medicine2015

Phenotype-driven strategies for exome prioritization of human Mendelian disease genes.

Damian Smedley, Peter N Robinson

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Review in Genome medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. PhenoSS: phenotype semantic similarity-based approach for rare disease prediction and patient clustering.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026
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  12. Leveraging clinical intuition to improve accuracy of phenotype-driven prioritization.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Damian SmedleySkarnes Faculty Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Peter N RobinsonInstitute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestrasse, 14195 Berlin, Germany ; Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz, 13353 Berlin, Germany ; Institute for Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse, 14195 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0736-9199

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole exome sequencing has altered the way in which rare diseases are diagnosed and disease genes identified. Hundreds of novel disease-associated genes have been characterized by whole exome sequencing in the past five years, yet the identification of disease-causing mutations is often challenging because of the large number of rare variants that are being revealed. Gene prioritization aims to rank the most probable candidate genes towards the top of a list of potentially pathogenic variants. A promising new approach involves the computational comparison of the phenotypic abnormalities of the individual being investigated with those previously associated with human diseases or genetically modified model organisms. In this review, we compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of current phenotype-driven computational algorithms, including Phevor, Phen-Gen, eXtasy and two algorithms developed by our groups called PhenIX and Exomiser. Computational phenotype analysis can substantially improve the performance of exome analysis pipelines.

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PMCPMC4520011

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