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ArticleGenetics2016

Navigating the Phenotype Frontier: The Monarch Initiative.

Julie A McMurry, Sebastian Köhler, Nicole L Washington, James P Balhoff, Charles Borromeo, Matthew Brush, Seth Carbon, Tom Conlin, Nathan Dunn, Mark Engelstad and 16 more

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Article in Genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. OMAMO: orthology-based alternative model organism selection.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2022
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  2. Evidence-based classification of genes implicated in craniosynostosis disorders using the ClinGen curation framework.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2026
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  6. Expanding the genetics and phenotypes of ocular congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025
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  7. The mutant mouse resource and research center (MMRRC) consortium: the US-based public mouse repository system.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2024
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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

26 authors.

Julie A McMurryDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0002-9353-5498
Sebastian KöhlerInstitute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5316-1399
Nicole L WashingtonEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720.ORCID 0000-0001-8936-9143
James P BalhoffRTI International, Durham, North Carolina 27709.ORCID 0000-0002-8688-6599
Charles BorromeoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206.ORCID 0000-0003-4059-4547
Matthew BrushDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0002-1048-5019
Seth CarbonEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720.ORCID 0000-0001-8244-1536
Tom ConlinDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0003-0355-5581
Nathan DunnEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-4862-3181
Mark EngelstadDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0001-5889-4463
Erin FosterDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0001-6908-9849
Jean-Philippe GourdineDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0001-9969-8610
Julius O B JacobsenWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3265-1591
Daniel KeithDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0002-1643-6242
Bryan LarawayDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.
Jeremy Nguyen XuanEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720.
Kent ShefchekDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.
Nicole A VasilevskyDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.ORCID 0000-0001-5208-3432
Zhou YuanDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206.
Suzanna E LewisEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720.
Harry HochheiserDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206.
Tudor GrozaKinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, Australia.
Damian SmedleyWilliam Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Queen Mary University of London, EC1M 6BQ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5836-9850
Peter N RobinsonInstitute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0736-9199
Christopher J MungallEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-6601-2165
Melissa A HaendelDepartment of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, and Oregon Health and Science University Library, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239 haendel@ohsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9114-8737

Funding

The Monarch Initiative: Linking Diseases to Model Organism ResourcesR24OD011883 · OD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HAENDEL, MELISSA A, MUNGALL, CHRISTOPHER J · 2012 to 2024
$16.0M
NIH HHS R24 OD011883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The principles of genetics apply across the entire tree of life. At the cellular level we share biological mechanisms with species from which we diverged millions, even billions of years ago. We can exploit this common ancestry to learn about health and disease, by analyzing DNA and protein sequences, but also through the observable outcomes of genetic differences, i.e. phenotypes. To solve challenging disease problems we need to unify the heterogeneous data that relates genomics to disease traits. Without a big-picture view of phenotypic data, many questions in genetics are difficult or impossible to answer. The Monarch Initiative (https://monarchinitiative.org) provides tools for genotype-phenotype analysis, genomic diagnostics, and precision medicine across broad areas of disease.

Indexed as

Computational BiologyGenetic Association StudiesGenomicsPrecision MedicineDatabases, GeneticHumansSequence Analysis, DNASequence Analysis, Proteincomparative medicinedata integrationdisease diagnosisdisease discoveryphenotype ontologies

Identifiers

PMID27516611
PMCPMC4981258

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