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The Human Phenotype Ontology project: linking molecular biology and disease through phenotype data

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Danielle Brown, Dr Jennifer Campbell

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Abstract

The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) project, available at http://www.human-phenotype-ontology.org, provides a structured, comprehensive and well-defined set of 10,088 classes (terms) describing human phenotypic abnormalities and 13,326 subclass relations between the HPO classes. In addition we have developed logical definitions for 46% of all HPO classes using terms from ontologies for anatomy, cell types, function, embryology, pathology and other domains. This allows interoperability with several resources, especially those containing phenotype information on model organisms such as mouse and zebrafish. Here we describe the updated HPO database, which provides annotations of 7,278 human hereditary syndromes listed in OMIM, Orphanet and DECIPHER to classes of the HPO. Various meta-attributes such as frequency, references and negations are associated with each annotation. Several large-scale projects worldwide utilize the HPO for describing phenotype information in their datasets. We have therefore generated equivalence mappings to other phenotype vocabularies such as LDDB, Orphanet, MedDRA, UMLS and phenoDB, allowing integration of existing datasets and interoperability with multiple biomedical resources. We have created various ways to access the HPO database content using flat files, a MySQL database, and Web-based tools. All data and documentation on the HPO project can be found online.


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Author(s): Kohler S, Doelken SC, Mungall CJ, Bauer S, Firth HV, Bailleul-Forestier I, Black GCM, Brown DL, Brudno M, Campbell J, FitzPatrick DR, Eppig JT, Jackson AP, Freson K, Girdea M, Helbig I, Hurst JA, Jahn J, Jackson LG, Kelly AM, Ledbetter DH, Mansour S, Martin CL, Moss C, Mumford A, Ouwehand WH, Park SM, Riggs ER, Scott RH, Sisodiya S, Van Vooren S, Wapner RJ, Wilkie AOM, Wright CF, Vulto-van Silfhout AT, de Leeuw N, de Vries BBA, Washingthon NL, Smith CL, Westerfield M, Schofield P, Ruef BJ, Gkoutos GV, Haendel M, Smedley D, Lewis SE, Robinson PN

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Nucleic Acids Research

Year: 2014

Volume: 42

Issue: D1

Pages: D966-D974

Print publication date: 01/01/2014

ISSN (print): 0305-1048

ISSN (electronic): 1362-4962

Publisher: Oxford University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt1026

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1026


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Funder referenceFunder name
National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre
0313911Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [BMBF]
602300European Community
DE-AC02-05CH11231Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy
HG000330National Institutes of Health
RO 2005/4-2Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG]
U41-HG002659National Institutes of Health
R01-HG004838National Institutes of Health
R24-OD011883National Institutes of Health

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