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ArticleGenetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics2022

Scoping review and classification of deep learning in medical genetics.

Suzanna E Ledgister Hanchard, Michelle C Dwyer, Simon Liu, Ping Hu, Cedrik Tekendo-Ngongang, Rebekah L Waikel, Dat Duong, Benjamin D Solomon

Abstract readScoping Review
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Article in Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Artificial intelligence in clinical genetics: Current practice and attitudes among the clinical genetics workforce.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2026
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  2. Disparate language and model effects on AI-based translation and recognition of genetic conditions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2026
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  4. Artificial intelligence in clinical genetics.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2025
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  13. Generative Methods for Pediatric Genetics Education.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Suzanna E Ledgister HanchardMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Michelle C DwyerMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Simon LiuMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Ping HuMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Cedrik Tekendo-NgongangMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Rebekah L WaikelMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Dat DuongMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Benjamin D SolomonMedical Genomics Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD. Electronic address: solomonb@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Medical Genomics Unit Analytic ProjectsZIAHG200405 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI SOLOMON, BENJAMIN · 2020 to 2025
$4.4M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HG200405
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep learning (DL) is applied in many biomedical areas. We performed a scoping review on DL in medical genetics. We first assessed 14,002 articles, of which 133 involved DL in medical genetics. DL in medical genetics increased rapidly during the studied period. In medical genetics, DL has largely been applied to small data sets of affected individuals (mean = 95, median = 29) with genetic conditions (71 different genetic conditions were studied; 24 articles studied multiple conditions). A variety of data types have been used in medical genetics, including radiologic (20%), ophthalmologic (14%), microscopy (8%), and text-based data (4%); the most common data type was patient facial photographs (46%). DL authors and research subjects overrepresent certain geographic areas (United States, Asia, and Europe). Convolutional neural networks (89%) were the most common method. Results were compared with human performance in 31% of studies. In total, 51% of articles provided data access; 16% released source code. To further explore DL in genomics, we conducted an additional analysis, the results of which highlight future opportunities for DL in medical genetics. Finally, we expect DL applications to increase in the future. To aid data curation, we evaluated a DL, random forest, and rule-based classifier at categorizing article abstracts.

Indexed as

Deep LearningGenetics, MedicalAsiaGenomicsHumansNeural Networks, ComputerArtificial intelligenceDeep learningMachine learningMedical geneticsMedical genomics

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PMID35612590
PMCPMC11056027

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