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Clinical Phenotypic Spectrum of 4095 Individuals with Down Syndrome from Text Mining of Electronic Health Records.

James Margolin Havrilla, Mengge Zhao, Cong Liu, Chunhua Weng, Ingo Helbig, Elizabeth Bhoj, Kai Wang

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Article in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

James Margolin HavrillaCenter for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Mengge ZhaoCenter for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Cong LiuDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Chunhua WengDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Ingo HelbigDepartment of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Elizabeth BhojDivision of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Kai WangCenter for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Deep phenotyping in Electronic Health Records for Genomic MedicineR01LM012895 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI WANG, KAI, WENG, CHUNHUA · 2018 to 2021
$3.3M
Detection and annotation of structural variants from long-read sequencingR01GM132713 · NIGMS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI WANG, KAI · 2019 to 2022
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132713NLM NIH HHS R01 LM012895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, have a wide variety of clinical phenotypic presentations, and characterizing each nuanced phenotype and subtype can be difficult. In this study, we examined the electronic health records of 4095 individuals with Down syndrome at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to create a method to characterize the phenotypic spectrum digitally. We extracted Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms from quality-filtered patient notes using a natural language processing (NLP) approach MetaMap. We catalogued the most common HPO terms related to Down syndrome patients and compared the terms with those from a baseline population. We characterized the top 100 HPO terms by their frequencies at different ages of clinical visits and highlighted selected terms that have time-dependent distributions. We also discovered phenotypic terms that have not been significantly associated with Down syndrome, such as "Proptosis", "Downslanted palpebral fissures", and "Microtia". In summary, our study demonstrated that the clinical phenotypic spectrum of individual with Mendelian diseases can be characterized through NLP-based digital phenotyping on population-scale electronic health records (EHRs).

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Data MiningElectronic Health RecordsPhenotypeDown SyndromeHumansNatural Language ProcessingDown syndromeelectronic health recordslarge-scalelongitudinal studynatural language processingphenotypephenotypic spectrumtext mining

Identifiers

PMID34440331
PMCPMC8393657
OpenAlexW3185407782

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