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The human phenotype ontology: a tool for annotating and analyzing human hereditary disease

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Robinson, Peter N., Köhler, Sebastian, Bauer, Sebastian, Seelow, Dominik, Horn, Denise, Mundlos, Stefan·2008·The American Journal of Human Genetics

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There are many thousands of hereditary diseases in humans, each of which has a specific combination of phenotypic features, but computational analysis of phenotypic data has been hampered by lack of adequate computational data structures. Therefore, we have developed a Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) with over 8000 terms representing individual phenotypic anomalies and have annotated all clinical entries in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man with the terms of the HPO. We show that the HPO is able to capture phenotypic similarities between diseases in a useful and highly significant fashion.

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  • GO, CL, HPO and related projects provide widely used, manually curated ontologies that hierarchically factor entities such as biological processes, components and functions, cell types, and human phenotypes into progressively more specific subunits.

    “The Gene Ontology (GO) (Ashburner et al., 2000), Cell Ontology (CL) (Bard et al., 2005; Diehl et al., 2016), Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) (Robinson et al., 2008) and related projects provide a set of widely used, manually curated ontologies that attempt to hierarchically factor entities such as biological processes, components and functions (GO), cell types (CL), and human phenotypes (HPO) into”

    From Mapping the multiscale structure of biological systems (2021) · cites this paper as Robinson et al., 2008

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Authors
Robinson, P. N., Köhler, S., Bauer, S., Seelow, D., Horn, D., & Mundlos, S.
Affiliations
  • Berlin-Brandenburger Centrum für Regenerative Therapien (DE)
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
Corresponding author
Robinson, Peter N.
Venue
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-11
Volume
83
Issue
5
Pages
610-615
ISSN
0002-9297 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2136410628
Cited by
1,034
References
29
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
Funders
Berlin-Brandenburger Centrum für Regenerative Therapien
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
Human Phenotype Ontology, genetic disorders, disease annotation, OMIM, phenotypic similarity
MeSH terms
Humans, Phenotype, Software, Computational Biology, Genetic Diseases, Inborn, Databases, Genetic

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