Facilitating collaboration in rare genetic disorders through effective matchmaking in DECIPHER.
Hum Mutat
; 36(10): 941-9, 2015 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-26220709
ABSTRACT
DECIPHER (https//decipher.sanger.ac.uk) is a web-based platform for secure deposition, analysis, and sharing of plausibly pathogenic genomic variants from well-phenotyped patients suffering from genetic disorders. DECIPHER aids clinical interpretation of these rare sequence and copy-number variants by providing tools for variant analysis and identification of other patients exhibiting similar genotype-phenotype characteristics. DECIPHER also provides mechanisms to encourage collaboration among a global community of clinical centers and researchers, as well as exchange of information between clinicians and researchers within a consortium, to accelerate discovery and diagnosis. DECIPHER has contributed to matchmaking efforts by enabling the global clinical genetics community to identify many previously undiagnosed syndromes and new disease genes, and has facilitated the publication of over 700 peer-reviewed scientific publications since 2004. At the time of writing, DECIPHER contains anonymized data from â¼250 registered centers on more than 51,500 patients (â¼18000 patients with consent for data sharing and â¼25000 anonymized records shared privately). In this paper, we describe salient features of the platform, with special emphasis on the tools and processes that aid interpretation, sharing, and effective matchmaking with other data held in the database and that make DECIPHER an invaluable clinical and research resource.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Predisposição Genética para Doença
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Doenças Raras
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Disseminação de Informação
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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Hum Mutat
Assunto da revista:
GENETICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article
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Reino Unido