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Novel phenotype-disease matching tool for rare genetic diseases.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Feb 2019
Chen Jing, Xu Huan, Jegga Anil, Zhang Kejian, White Pete S, Zhang Ge
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PURPOSE: To improve the accuracy of matching rare genetic diseases based on patient's phenotypes. METHODS: We introduce new methods to prioritize diagnosis of genetic diseases based on integrated semantic similarity (method 1) and ontological overlap (method 2) between the phenotypes expressed by a patient and phenotypes annotated to known diseases. RESULTS: We evaluated the performance of our methods by two sets...
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