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Novelty and idiosyncrasy: the clay feet of rare disease descriptions.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Jul 2026
Aouchiche Karine, Guerry Paul, Fabre Alexandre
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Medical understanding of rare diseases is hindered by incomplete initial descriptions. A related but often overlooked question is how many patients are required to define a phenotype. We evaluated the phenome coverage of 10 recently published gene-disease associations using the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) system as a template and calculated the sample sizes required to significantly associate the prevalence of...
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