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The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease.

ABSTRACT: The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is widely used in the rare disease community for differential diagnostics, phenotype-driven analysis of next-generation sequence-variation data, and translational research, but a comparable resource has not been available for common disease. Here, we have developed a concept-recognition procedure that analyzes the frequencies of HPO disease annotations as identified in over five million PubMed abstracts by employing an iterative procedure to optimize precision and recall of the identified terms. We derived disease models for 3,145 common human diseases comprising a total of 132,006 HPO annotations. The HPO now comprises over 250,000 phenotypic annotations for over 10,000 rare and common diseases and can be used for examining the phenotypic overlap among common diseases that share risk alleles, as well as between Mendelian diseases and common diseases linked by genomic location. The annotations, as well as the HPO itself, are freely available.

SUBMITTER: Groza T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4572507 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease.

Groza Tudor T Köhler Sebastian S Moldenhauer Dawid D Vasilevsky Nicole N Baynam Gareth G Zemojtel Tomasz T Schriml Lynn Marie LM Kibbe Warren Alden WA Schofield Paul N PN Beck Tim T Vasant Drashtti D Brookes Anthony J AJ Zankl Andreas A Washington Nicole L NL Mungall Christopher J CJ Lewis Suzanna E SE Haendel Melissa A MA Parkinson Helen H Robinson Peter N PN

American journal of human genetics 20150625 1

The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is widely used in the rare disease community for differential diagnostics, phenotype-driven analysis of next-generation sequence-variation data, and translational research, but a comparable resource has not been available for common disease. Here, we have developed a concept-recognition procedure that analyzes the frequencies of HPO disease annotations as identified in over five million PubMed abstracts by employing an iterative procedure to optimize precision ...[more]

PMID: 26119816

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Project description:BackgroundExome sequencing is a promising method for diagnosing patients with a complex phenotype. However, variant interpretation relative to patient phenotype can be challenging in some scenarios, particularly clinical assessment of rare complex phenotypes. Each patient's sequence reveals many possibly damaging variants that must be individually assessed to establish clear association with patient phenotype. To assist interpretation, we implemented an algorithm that ranks a given set of genes relative to patient phenotype. The algorithm orders genes by the semantic similarity computed between phenotypic descriptors associated with each gene and those describing the patient. Phenotypic descriptor terms are taken from the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and semantic similarity is derived from each term's information content.ResultsModel validation was performed via simulation and with clinical data. We simulated 33 Mendelian diseases with 100 patients per disease. We modeled clinical conditions by adding noise and imprecision, i.e. phenotypic terms unrelated to the disease and terms less specific than the actual disease terms. We ranked the causative gene against all 2488 HPO annotated genes. The median causative gene rank was 1 for the optimal and noise cases, 12 for the imprecision case, and 60 for the imprecision with noise case. Additionally, we examined a clinical cohort of subjects with hearing impairment. The disease gene median rank was 22. However, when also considering the patient's exome data and filtering non-exomic and common variants, the median rank improved to 3.ConclusionsSemantic similarity can rank a causative gene highly within a gene list relative to patient phenotype characteristics, provided that imprecision is mitigated. The clinical case results suggest that phenotype rank combined with variant analysis provides significant improvement over the individual approaches. We expect that this combined prioritization approach may increase accuracy and decrease effort for clinical genetic diagnosis.

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The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease.

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The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease.

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