The human phenotype ontology: a tool for annotating and analyzing human hereditary disease
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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”
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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)
- PMC
- PMC2668030
- OpenAlex
- W2136410628
- Cited by
- 1,034
- References
- 29
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- FWCI
- 11.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- 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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