Browsing by Author "Köhler, Sebastian"

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    Enhancing the Human Phenotype Ontology for Use by the Layperson
    (2016) Vasilevsky, Nicole A.; Engelstad, Mark; Foster, Erin D.; Mungall, Christopher J.; Robinson, Peter N.; Köhler, Sebastian; Haendel, Melissa A.
    In rare or undiagnosed diseases, physicians rely upon genotype and phenotype information in order to compare abnormalities to other known cases and to inform diagnoses. Patients are often the best sources of information about their symptoms and phenotypes. The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) contains over 12,000 terms describing abnormal human phenotypes. However, the labels and synonyms in the HPO primarily use medical terminology, which can be difficult for patients and their families to understand. In order to make the HPO more accessible to non-medical experts, we systematically added new synonyms using non-expert terminology (ie, layperson terms) to the existing HPO classes or tagged existing synonyms as layperson. As a result, the HPO contains over 6,000 classes with layperson synonyms.
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    The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017
    (Oxford Journals, 2016-11-24) Köhler, Sebastian; Vasilevsky, Nicole A.; Engelstad, Mark; Foster, Erin D.; McMurry, Julie A.; Aymé, Ségolène; Baynam, Gareth; Bello, Susan M.; Boerkoel, Cornelius F.; Boycott, Kym M.; Brudno, Michael; Buske, Orion J.; Chinnery, Patrick F.; Cipriani, Valentina; Connell, Laureen E.; Dawkins, Hugh J.S.; DeMare, Laura E.; Devereau, Andrew D.; de Vries, Bert B.A.; Firth, Helen V.; Freson, Kathleen; Greene, Daniel; Hamosh, Ada; Helbig, Ingo; Hum, Courtney; Jähn, Johanna A.; James, Roger; Krause, Roland; Laulederkind, Stanley J. F.; Lochmüller, Hanns; Lyon, Gholson J.; Ogishima, Soichi; Olry, Annie; Ouwehand, Willem H.; Pontikos, Nikolas; Rath, Ana; Schaefer, Franz; Scott, Richard H.; Segal, Michael; Sergouniotis, Panagiotis I.; Sever, Richard; Smith, Cynthia L.; Straub, Volker; Thompson, Rachel; Turner, Catherine; Turro, Ernest; Veltman, Marijcke W.M.; Vulliamy, Tom; Yu, Jing; von Ziegenweidt, Julie; Zankl, Andreas; Züchner, Stephan; Zemojtel, Tomasz; Jacobsen, Julius O.B.; Groza, Tudor; Smedley, Damian; Mungall, Christopher J.; Haendel, Melissa A.; Robinson, Peter N.
    Deep phenotyping has been defined as the precise and comprehensive analysis of phenotypic abnormalities in which the individual components of the phenotype are observed and described. The three components of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO; www.human-phenotype-ontology.org) project are the phenotype vocabulary, disease-phenotype annotations and the algorithms that operate on these. These components are being used for computational deep phenotyping and precision medicine as well as integration of clinical data into translational research. The HPO is being increasingly adopted as a standard for phenotypic abnormalities by diverse groups such as international rare disease organizations, registries, clinical labs, biomedical resources, and clinical software tools and will thereby contribute toward nascent efforts at global data exchange for identifying disease etiologies. This update article reviews the progress of the HPO project since the debut Nucleic Acids Research database article in 2014, including specific areas of expansion such as common (complex) disease, new algorithms for phenotype driven genomic discovery and diagnostics, integration of cross-species mapping efforts with the Mammalian Phenotype Ontology, an improved quality control pipeline, and the addition of patient-friendly terminology.
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    The Monarch Initiative: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species
    (Oxford Journals, 2016-11-26) Mungall, Chris; McMurry, Julie A.; Köhler, Sebastian; Balhoff, James P.; Borromeo, Charles; Brush, Matthew; Carbon, Seth; Conlin, Tom; Dunn, Nathan; Engelstad, Mark; Foster, Erin D.; Gourdine, J.P.; Jacobsen, Julius O.B.; Keith, Dan; Laraway, Bryan; Lewis, Suzanna E.; Xuan, Jeremy N.; Shefchek, Kent; Vasilevsky, Nicole; Yuan, Zhou; Washington, Nicole; Hochheiser, Harry; Groza, Tudor; Smedley, Damian; Robinson, Peter N.; Haendel, Melissa A.
    The correlation of phenotypic outcomes with genetic variation and environmental factors is a core pursuit in biology and biomedicine. Numerous challenges impede our progress: patient phenotypes may not match known diseases, candidate variants may be in genes that have not been characterized, model organisms may not recapitulate human or veterinary diseases, filling evolutionary gaps is difficult, and many resources must be queried to find potentially significant genotype–phenotype associations. Non-human organisms have proven instrumental in revealing biological mechanisms. Advanced informatics tools can identify phenotypically relevant disease models in research and diagnostic contexts. Large-scale integration of model organism and clinical research data can provide a breadth of knowledge not available from individual sources and can provide contextualization of data back to these sources. The Monarch Initiative (monarchinitiative.org) is a collaborative, open science effort that aims to semantically integrate genotype–phenotype data from many species and sources in order to support precision medicine, disease modeling, and mechanistic exploration. Our integrated knowledge graph, analytic tools, and web services enable diverse users to explore relationships between phenotypes and genotypes across species.
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    Plain-language medical vocabulary for precision diagnosis
    (Nature Research, 2018-04) Vasilevsky, Nicole A.; Foster, Erin D.; Engelstad, Mark E.; Carmody, Leigh; Might, Matt; Chambers, Chip; Dawkins, Hugh J. S.; Lewis, Janine; Della Rocca, Maria G.; Snyder, Michelle; Boerkoel, Cornelius F.; Rath, Ana; Terry, Sharon F.; Kent, Alastair; Searle, Beverly; Baynam, Gareth; Jones, Erik; Gavin, Pam; Bamshad, Michael; Chong, Jessica; Groza, Tudor; Adams, David; Resnick, Adam C.; Heath, Allison P.; Mungall, Chris; Holm, Ingrid A.; Rageth, Kayli; Brownstein, Catherine A.; Shefchek, Kent; McMurry, Julie A.; Robinson, Peter N.; Köhler, Sebastian; Haendel, Melissa A.; Medicine, School of Medicine
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    Semantic integration of clinical laboratory tests from electronic health records for deep phenotyping and biomarker discovery
    (Springer Nature, 2019) Zhang, Xingmin Aaron; Yates, Amy; Vasilevsky, Nicole; Gourdine, J. P.; Callahan, Tiffany J.; Carmody, Leigh C.; Danis, Daniel; Joachimiak, Marcin P.; Ravanmehr, Vida; Pfaff, Emily R.; Champion, James; Robasky, Kimberly; Xu, Hao; Fecho, Karamarie; Walton, Nephi A.; Zhu, Richard L.; Ramsdill, Justin; Mungall, Christopher J.; Köhler, Sebastian; Haendel, Melissa A.; McDonald, Clement J.; Vreeman, Daniel J.; Peden, David B.; Bennett, Tellen D.; Feinstein, James A.; Martin, Blake; Stefanski, Adrianne L.; Hunter, Lawrence E.; Chute, Christopher G.; Robinson, Peter N.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems typically define laboratory test results using the Laboratory Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) and can transmit them using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards. LOINC has not yet been semantically integrated with computational resources for phenotype analysis. Here, we provide a method for mapping LOINC-encoded laboratory test results transmitted in FHIR standards to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms. We annotated the medical implications of 2923 commonly used laboratory tests with HPO terms. Using these annotations, our software assesses laboratory test results and converts each result into an HPO term. We validated our approach with EHR data from 15,681 patients with respiratory complaints and identified known biomarkers for asthma. Finally, we provide a freely available SMART on FHIR application that can be used within EHR systems. Our approach allows readily available laboratory tests in EHR to be reused for deep phenotyping and exploits the hierarchical structure of HPO to integrate distinct tests that have comparable medical interpretations for association studies.
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    The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2024: phenotypes around the world
    (Oxford University Press, 2024) Gargano, Michael A.; Matentzoglu, Nicolas; Coleman, Ben; Addo-Lartey, Eunice B.; Anagnostopoulos, Anna V.; Anderton, Joel; Avillach, Paul; Bagley, Anita M.; Bakštein, Eduard; Balhoff, James P.; Baynam, Gareth; Bello, Susan M.; Berk, Michael; Bertram, Holli; Bishop, Somer; Blau, Hannah; Bodenstein, David F.; Botas, Pablo; Boztug, Kaan; Čady, Jolana; Callahan, Tiffany J.; Cameron, Rhiannon; Carbon, Seth J.; Castellanos, Francisco; Caufield, J. Harry; Chan, Lauren E.; Chute, Christopher G.; Cruz-Rojo, Jaime; Dahan-Oliel, Noémi; Davids, Jon R.; de Dieuleveult, Maud; de Souza, Vinicius; de Vries, Bert B. A.; de Vries, Esther; DePaulo, J. Raymond; Derfalvi, Beata; Dhombres, Ferdinand; Diaz-Byrd, Claudia; Dingemans, Alexander J. M.; Donadille, Bruno; Duyzend, Michael; Elfeky, Reem; Essaid, Shahim; Fabrizzi, Carolina; Fico, Giovanna; Firth, Helen V.; Freudenberg-Hua, Yun; Fullerton, Janice M.; Gabriel, Davera L.; Gilmour, Kimberly; Giordano, Jessica; Goes, Fernando S.; Gore Moses, Rachel; Green, Ian; Griese, Matthias; Groza, Tudor; Gu, Weihong; Guthrie, Julia; Gyori, Benjamin; Hamosh, Ada; Hanauer, Marc; Hanušová, Kateřina; He, Yongqun Oliver; Hegde, Harshad; Helbig, Ingo; Holasová, Kateřina; Hoyt, Charles Tapley; Huang, Shangzhi; Hurwitz, Eric; Jacobsen, Julius O. B.; Jiang, Xiaofeng; Joseph, Lisa; Keramatian, Kamyar; King, Bryan; Knoflach, Katrin; Koolen, David A.; Kraus, Megan L.; Kroll, Carlo; Kusters, Maaike; Ladewig, Markus S.; Lagorce, David; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Lapunzina, Pablo; Laraway, Bryan; Lewis-Smith, David; Li, Xiarong; Lucano, Caterina; Majd, Marzieh; Marazita, Mary L.; Martinez-Glez, Victor; McHenry, Toby H.; McInnis, Melvin G.; McMurry, Julie A.; Mihulová, Michaela; Millett, Caitlin E.; Mitchell, Philip B.; Moslerová, Veronika; Narutomi, Kenji; Nematollahi, Shahrzad; Nevado, Julian; Nierenberg, Andrew A.; Novák Čajbiková, Nikola; Nurnberger, John I., Jr.; Ogishima, Soichi; Olson, Daniel; Ortiz, Abigail; Pachajoa, Harry; Perez de Nanclares, Guiomar; Peters, Amy; Putman, Tim; Rapp, Christina K.; Rath, Ana; Reese, Justin; Rekerle, Lauren; Roberts, Angharad M.; Roy, Suzy; Sanders, Stephan J.; Schuetz, Catharina; Schulte, Eva C.; Schulze, Thomas G.; Schwarz, Martin; Scott, Katie; Seelow, Dominik; Seitz, Berthold; Shen, Yiping; Similuk, Morgan N.; Simon, Eric S.; Singh, Balwinder; Smedley, Damian; Smith, Cynthia L.; Smolinsky, Jake T.; Sperry, Sarah; Stafford, Elizabeth; Stefancsik, Ray; Steinhaus, Robin; Strawbridge, Rebecca; Sundaramurthi, Jagadish Chandrabose; Talapova, Polina; Tenorio Castano, Jair A.; Tesner, Pavel; Thomas, Rhys H.; Thurm, Audrey; Turnovec, Marek; van Gijn, Marielle E.; Vasilevsky, Nicole A.; Vlčková, Markéta; Walden, Anita; Wang, Kai; Wapner, Ron; Ware, James S.; Wiafe, Addo A.; Wiafe, Samuel A.; Wiggins, Lisa D.; Williams, Andrew E.; Wu, Chen; Wyrwoll, Margot J.; Xiong, Hui; Yalin, Nefize; Yamamoto, Yasunori; Yatham, Lakshmi N.; Yocum, Anastasia K.; Young, Allan H.; Yüksel, Zafer; Zandi, Peter P.; Zankl, Andreas; Zarante, Ignacio; Zvolský, Miroslav; Toro, Sabrina; Carmody, Leigh C.; Harris, Nomi L.; Munoz-Torres, Monica C.; Danis, Daniel; Mungall, Christopher J.; Köhler, Sebastian; Haendel, Melissa A.; Robinson, Peter N.; Psychiatry, School of Medicine
    The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is a widely used resource that comprehensively organizes and defines the phenotypic features of human disease, enabling computational inference and supporting genomic and phenotypic analyses through semantic similarity and machine learning algorithms. The HPO has widespread applications in clinical diagnostics and translational research, including genomic diagnostics, gene-disease discovery, and cohort analytics. In recent years, groups around the world have developed translations of the HPO from English to other languages, and the HPO browser has been internationalized, allowing users to view HPO term labels and in many cases synonyms and definitions in ten languages in addition to English. Since our last report, a total of 2239 new HPO terms and 49235 new HPO annotations were developed, many in collaboration with external groups in the fields of psychiatry, arthrogryposis, immunology and cardiology. The Medical Action Ontology (MAxO) is a new effort to model treatments and other measures taken for clinical management. Finally, the HPO consortium is contributing to efforts to integrate the HPO and the GA4GH Phenopacket Schema into electronic health records (EHRs) with the goal of more standardized and computable integration of rare disease data in EHRs.