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ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG2022

Phenotype-aware prioritisation of rare Mendelian disease variants.

Catherine Kelly, Anita Szabo, Nikolas Pontikos, Gavin Arno, Peter N Robinson, Jules O B Jacobsen, Damian Smedley, Valentina Cipriani

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Review in Trends in genetics : TIG, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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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  14. Advances in laboratory medicine · 2025
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  16. 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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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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Catherine KellyWilliam Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Anita SzaboUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, EC1V 9EL, UK.
Nikolas PontikosUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, EC1V 9EL, UK.
Gavin ArnoUCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, EC1V 9EL, UK.
Peter N RobinsonThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT 06032, USA.
Jules O B JacobsenWilliam Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Damian SmedleyWilliam Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK. Electronic address: d.smedley@qmul.ac.uk.
Valentina CiprianiWilliam Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK; UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, EC1V 9EL, UK; Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, EC1V 2PD, UK; UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6AA, UK. Electronic address: v.cipriani@qmul.ac.uk.
Queen Mary University of London · GBUniversity College London · GBJackson Laboratory · USMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · GB

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
Mouse Phenotyping Informatics Infrastruture - MP12U54HG006370 · NHGRI · EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · PI BROWN, STEVE, FLICEK, PAUL · 2011 to 2015
$11.4M
Increasing the Yield and Utility of Pediatric Genomic Medicine with ExomiserR01HD103805 · NICHD · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI Valentina Cipriani, CHRISTOPHER J MUNGALL · 2021 to 2026
$4.3M
Department of Health RG65966NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG006370NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD103805NIH HHS R24 OD011883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A molecular diagnosis from the analysis of sequencing data in rare Mendelian diseases has a huge impact on the management of patients and their families. Numerous patient phenotype-aware variant prioritisation (VP) tools have been developed to help automate this process, and shorten the diagnostic odyssey, but performance statistics on real patient data are limited. Here we identify, assess, and compare the performance of all up-to-date, freely available, and programmatically accessible tools using a whole-exome, retinal disease dataset from 134 individuals with a molecular diagnosis. All tools were able to identify around two-thirds of the genetic diagnoses as the top-ranked candidate, with LIRICAL performing best overall. Finally, we discuss the challenges to overcome most cases remaining undiagnosed after current, state-of-the-art practices.

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ExomeRare DiseasesExome SequencingHumansPhenotypemolecular diagnosisphenotyperare diseasevariant prioritisationvariant prioritization

Identifiers

PMID35934592
PMCPMC9950798
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