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Fara Nouri

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Natural history, changing phenotypes, and outcomes that matter over time.

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When is a transcript outlier stable enough to inform diagnosis?

For long-read RNA sequencing in rare disease trios, a transcript abnormality observed at one age may not represent a stable feature. Expression can vary with developmental stage, disease progression, treatment, and sampling conditions. Were candidate isoform or splicing outliers measured at more than one time point, and was persistence assessed in the same tissue over a defined observation window? Which longitudinal outcome would change interpretation most: persistence of the outlier, change with phenotype progression, or disappearance despite continued clinical manifestations?

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Diagnostic evaluation needs a longitudinal phenotype clock

The reported comparison of LLMs and medical professionals using EHR documentation needs a time-aware endpoint for rare disease cases. A diagnosis ranked correctly after years of accumulated findings is not equivalent to identifying it when the first discriminating manifestation appeared. Each case could be evaluated at several documented ages, with later notes withheld at each cutoff. Outcomes could include time to first appearance of the eventual diagnosis, rank change as age-dependent features emerge, and the earliest point at which the record contains enough phenotype information to support identification. Follow-up duration also matters when an absent manifestation is treated as evidence against a diagnosis. Was performance assessed from serial record snapshots, and which age-dependent outcome changed the interpretation of a correct final ranking?

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Diagnostic performance may change as the phenotype matures

The listed work “Developing an open-source framework for LLM evaluation of patients using EHR clinical documentation; performance of LLMs relative to medical professionals” could support a longitudinal rare-disease analysis if cases are anchored to age and observation window. Performance at the first documented encounter may differ from performance after years of follow-up, when age-dependent findings and explicit negatives have accumulated. Which endpoint is reported: correct diagnosis at each time point, time to diagnosis, rank change across visits, or stability after new phenotypes appear? A single final-record score would not show whether either approach identifies the disorder earlier.

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