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ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis.

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Deisseroth, CA; Birgmeier, J; Bodle, EE; Kohler, JN; Matalon, DR; Nazarenko, Y; Genetti, CA; Brownstein, CA; Schmitz-Abe, K; Schoch, K; Cope, H ...
Published in: Genet Med
July 2019

PURPOSE: Diagnosing monogenic diseases facilitates optimal care, but can involve the manual evaluation of hundreds of genetic variants per case. Computational tools like Phrank expedite this process by ranking all candidate genes by their ability to explain the patient's phenotypes. To use these tools, busy clinicians must manually encode patient phenotypes from lengthy clinical notes. With 100 million human genomes estimated to be sequenced by 2025, a fast alternative to manual phenotype extraction from clinical notes will become necessary. METHODS: We introduce ClinPhen, a fast, high-accuracy tool that automatically converts clinical notes into a prioritized list of patient phenotypes using Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms. RESULTS: ClinPhen shows superior accuracy and 20× speedup over existing phenotype extractors, and its novel phenotype prioritization scheme improves the performance of gene-ranking tools. CONCLUSION: While a dedicated clinician can process 200 patient records in a 40-hour workweek, ClinPhen does the same in 10 minutes. Compared with manual phenotype extraction, ClinPhen saves an additional 3-5 hours per Mendelian disease diagnosis. Providers can now add ClinPhen's output to each summary note attached to a filled testing laboratory request form. ClinPhen makes a substantial contribution to improvements in efficiency critically needed to meet the surging demand for clinical diagnostic sequencing.

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Genet Med

DOI

EISSN

1530-0366

Publication Date

July 2019

Volume

21

Issue

7

Start / End Page

1585 / 1593

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Phenotype
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Medical Records
  • Humans
  • Genetics & Heredity
  • Genetic Diseases, Inborn
  • Computational Biology
  • Algorithms
  • 3105 Genetics
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Deisseroth, C. A., Birgmeier, J., Bodle, E. E., Kohler, J. N., Matalon, D. R., Nazarenko, Y., … Bejerano, G. (2019). ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis. Genet Med, 21(7), 1585–1593. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-018-0381-1
Deisseroth, Cole A., Johannes Birgmeier, Ethan E. Bodle, Jennefer N. Kohler, Dena R. Matalon, Yelena Nazarenko, Casie A. Genetti, et al. “ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis.Genet Med 21, no. 7 (July 2019): 1585–93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-018-0381-1.
Deisseroth CA, Birgmeier J, Bodle EE, Kohler JN, Matalon DR, Nazarenko Y, et al. ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis. Genet Med. 2019 Jul;21(7):1585–93.
Deisseroth, Cole A., et al. “ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis.Genet Med, vol. 21, no. 7, July 2019, pp. 1585–93. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41436-018-0381-1.
Deisseroth CA, Birgmeier J, Bodle EE, Kohler JN, Matalon DR, Nazarenko Y, Genetti CA, Brownstein CA, Schmitz-Abe K, Schoch K, Cope H, Signer R, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Martinez-Agosto JA, Shashi V, Beggs AH, Wheeler MT, Bernstein JA, Bejerano G. ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis. Genet Med. 2019 Jul;21(7):1585–1593.

Published In

Genet Med

DOI

EISSN

1530-0366

Publication Date

July 2019

Volume

21

Issue

7

Start / End Page

1585 / 1593

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Phenotype
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Medical Records
  • Humans
  • Genetics & Heredity
  • Genetic Diseases, Inborn
  • Computational Biology
  • Algorithms
  • 3105 Genetics
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences