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PubCaseFinder: A Case-Report-Based, Phenotype-Driven Differential-Diagnosis System for Rare Diseases

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Human Genetics, August 2018
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Title
PubCaseFinder: A Case-Report-Based, Phenotype-Driven Differential-Diagnosis System for Rare Diseases
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American Journal of Human Genetics, August 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.08.003
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Toyofumi Fujiwara, Yasunori Yamamoto, Jin-Dong Kim, Orion Buske, Toshihisa Takagi

Abstract

Recently, to speed up the differential-diagnosis process based on symptoms and signs observed from an affected individual in the diagnosis of rare diseases, researchers have developed and implemented phenotype-driven differential-diagnosis systems. The performance of those systems relies on the quantity and quality of underlying databases of disease-phenotype associations (DPAs). Although such databases are often developed by manual curation, they inherently suffer from limited coverage. To address this problem, we propose a text-mining approach to increase the coverage of DPA databases and consequently improve the performance of differential-diagnosis systems. Our analysis showed that a text-mining approach using one million case reports obtained from PubMed could increase the coverage of manually curated DPAs in Orphanet by 125.6%. We also present PubCaseFinder (see Web Resources), a new phenotype-driven differential-diagnosis system in a freely available web application. By utilizing automatically extracted DPAs from case reports in addition to manually curated DPAs, PubCaseFinder improves the performance of automated differential diagnosis. Moreover, PubCaseFinder helps clinicians search for relevant case reports by using phenotype-based comparisons and confirm the results with detailed contextual information.

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Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Bachelor 6 11%
Other 6 11%
Student > Master 4 8%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 15 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 8%
Computer Science 3 6%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 14 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 September 2018.
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#14
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