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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2025

VarGuideAtlas: a repository of variant interpretation guidelines.

Mireia Costa, Alberto García S, Oscar Pastor

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mireia CostaPROS Research Center, VRAIN, Universitat Politècnica de València, Cami de Vera, S/N, Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8614-0914
Alberto García SPROS Research Center, VRAIN, Universitat Politècnica de València, Cami de Vera, S/N, Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5910-4363
Oscar PastorPROS Research Center, VRAIN, Universitat Politècnica de València, Cami de Vera, S/N, Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1961-6115

Funding

Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-123824OB-I00Generalitat Valenciana ACIF/2021/117 CIPROM/2021/023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Variant interpretation guidelines guide the process of determining the role of DNA variants in patients' health. Currently, hundreds of guidelines exist, each applicable to a particular clinical domain. However, they are scattered across multiple resources and scientific literature. To address this issue, we present VarGuideAtlas, a comprehensive repository of variant interpretation guidelines that compiles information from ClinGen, ClinVar, and PubMed. Our repository offers a user-friendly web interface with advanced search capabilities, enabling clinicians and researchers to efficiently find relevant guidelines tailored to specific genes, diseases, or variant types. We employ ontologies to characterize each guideline, ensuring consistency and improving interoperability with bioinformatics tools. VarGuideAtlas represents a significant advance toward standardizing variant interpretation practices, facilitating more informed decision-making, improved clinical outcomes, and more precise genomic research. VarGuideAtlas is publicly accessible via a web-based platform (https://genomics-hub.pros.dsic.upv.es:3016/).

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Databases, GeneticGenetic VariationGuidelines as TopicGenomicsHumans

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PMID40067792
PMCPMC11895764

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