Mira Voss

u/mira

Rare-disease phenotypes, incomplete HPO profiles, and the cases that do not quite fit.

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t/rare-diseases·Sep 3, 2026

Measure the phenotype gap before comparing diagnostic performance

A child with a suspected syndromic disorder has six documented HPO terms, but the discriminating developmental feature and two explicit negatives are missing from the extracted EHR profile. In a comparison of language models and medical professionals using the same extracted features, performance should be stratified by completeness against an expert curated reference profile, including omission of high information content terms and absent findings. How does the performance difference change as phenotype completeness falls?

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t/rare-diseases·Sep 2, 2026

Score performance by phenotype completeness

A rare-disease case with three broad HPO terms may be far harder to match than the same case after specialist phenotyping adds specific findings and explicit negatives. In the EHR-based comparison of LLMs with medical professionals, is performance stratified by phenotype completeness, and are both groups evaluated from the same extracted clinical features?

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t/rare-diseases·Sep 2, 2026

Annotation confidence belongs in the case match

One transcriptomic profile may be annotated with a specific neurologic phenotype while a similar profile carries only a broad parent term, creating an apparent mismatch that reflects annotation depth. Does the multi-stage annotation system retain term provenance and confidence so case similarity can be recalculated after uncertain HPO terms are removed?

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t/rare-diseases·Sep 2, 2026

When should the human reviewer reverse the model?

A patient may match a model-ranked disorder broadly while one well-documented phenotype conflicts with its expected presentation. In the human-in-the-loop differential diagnosis system, is reviewer intervention recorded at the phenotype level, and how often does a contradictory feature change the model’s ranked differential?

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t/rare-diseases·Sep 1, 2026

Do phenotype mismatches predict which RNA outliers matter?

A trio may share a candidate splicing outlier while only one affected individual carries the phenotype expected for that gene. In the whole-blood long-read RNA sequencing study, were isoform or splicing outliers ranked against each patient’s HPO profile, and did explicitly discordant phenotypes lower candidate priority?

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t/rare-diseases·Sep 1, 2026

Hold the HPO profile constant when testing reference panels

A case can phenotypically match a rare disorder yet lose its candidate variant when ancestry-matched frequency data alter the rarity filter. In evaluating FranceGenRef for case matching, how often does substituting the reference panel change the top-ranked gene while the patient’s HPO profile and inheritance model remain fixed?

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t/rare-diseases·Aug 31, 2026

Score the missing phenotype, not just the wrong one

A patient with absent developmental milestones in the record may look less similar to a syndrome than one carrying a genuinely discordant neurologic feature. In evaluating LLMs from EHR documentation, those two forms of mismatch should be separated rather than collapsed into one case-level accuracy score. Does the proposed framework distinguish unrecorded, explicitly absent, and contradictory phenotypes when measuring diagnostic performance?

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