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Sebastian Köhler1,2,3, Leigh Carmody3,4, Nicole Vasilevsky3,5, Julius O B Jacobsen3,6, Daniel Danis3,4, Jean-Philippe Gourdine3,5, Michael Gargano3,4, Nomi L Harris3,7, Nicolas Matentzoglu3,8, Julie A McMurry3,9, David Osumi-Sutherland3,8, Valentina Cipriani3,10,11,12, James P Balhoff3,13, Tom Conlin3,9, Hannah Blau3,4, Gareth Baynam14,15,16,17,18, Richard Palmer17, Dylan Gratian14, Hugh Dawkins18, Michael Segal19, Anna C Jansen20,21, Ahmed Muaz3,22, Willie H Chang23, Jenna Bergerson24, Stanley J F Laulederkind25, Zafer Yüksel26, Sergi Beltran27,28, Alexandra F Freeman24, Panagiotis I Sergouniotis29, Daniel Durkin4, Andrea L Storm30,31, Marc Hanauer32, Michael Brudno23, Susan M Bello33, Murat Sincan34, Kayli Rageth34, Matthew T Wheeler35, Renske Oegema36, Halima Lourghi32, Maria G Della Rocca30,31, Rachel Thompson37, Francisco Castellanos4, James Priest38, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles39, Ayushi Hegde4, Ruth C Lovering40, Catherine Hajek34, Annie Olry32, Luigi Notarangelo24, Morgan Similuk24, Xingmin A Zhang3,4, David Gómez-Andrés41, Hanns Lochmüller27,42,43,44, Hélène Dollfus45, Sergio Rosenzweig46, Shruti Marwaha35, Ana Rath32, Kathleen Sullivan47, Cynthia Smith33, Joshua D Milner24, Dorothée Leroux45, Cornelius F Boerkoel34, Amy Klion24, Melody C Carter24, Tudor Groza3,22, Damian Smedley3,6, Melissa A Haendel3,5,9, Chris Mungall3,7, Peter N Robinson3,4,48.
Abstract
The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)-a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities associated with 7000+ diseases-is used by thousands of researchers, clinicians, informaticians and electronic health record systems around the world. Its detailed descriptions of clinical abnormalities and computable disease definitions have made HPO the de facto standard for deep phenotyping in the field of rare disease. The HPO's interoperability with other ontologies has enabled it to be used to improve diagnostic accuracy by incorporating model organism data. It also plays a key role in the popular Exomiser tool, which identifies potential disease-causing variants from whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing data. Since the HPO was first introduced in 2008, its users have become both more numerous and more diverse. To meet these emerging needs, the project has added new content, language translations, mappings and computational tooling, as well as integrations with external community data. The HPO continues to collaborate with clinical adopters to improve specific areas of the ontology and extend standardized disease descriptions. The newly redesigned HPO website (www.human-phenotype-ontology.org) simplifies browsing terms and exploring clinical features, diseases, and human genes.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30476213 PMCID: PMC6324074 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1105
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971
Community workshops and collaborations aimed at HPO content expansion and refinement
| Organization | Location | Focus |
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| Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN); Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases (SCICD) | Stanford University, CA, USA (March 2017) | Cardiology |
| European Reference Network for Rare Eye Disease (ERN-EYE) | Mont Sainte-Odile, France (October 2017) | Ophthalmology |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) | National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (May and July 2018) | Allergy and immunology |
| Neuro-MIG European network for brain malformations ( | St Julians, Malta; Lisbon, Portugal (February 2018; September 2018) | Malformations of cortical development (MCD) |
| European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID) and the European Reference network on rare primary immunodeficiency, autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases (ERN-RITA) | Vienna Austria (September 2018) | Inborn errors of immunity. |
The HPO records the frequencies of phenotypic features in three different ways
| Frequency categories | ||
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| Term | ID | Definition |
| Obligate | HP:0040280 | Always present, i.e. in 100% of the cases. |
| Very frequent | HP:0040281 | Present in 80–99% of the cases. |
| Frequent | HP:0040282 | Present in 30–79% of the cases. |
| Occasional | HP:0040283 | Present in 5–29% of the cases. |
| Very rare | HP:0040284 | Present in 1–4% of the cases. |
| Excluded | HP:0040285 | Present in 0% of the cases. |
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| Percentage | x% | This is used to record frequency of a feature in a disease if the number of probands is not available, e.g. 42%. |
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| N of M notation | n/m | This is used to record how many persons with a certain disease were observed to have a given phenotypic feature represented by an HPO term, e.g. 5/13. This should be used only if the feature was ruled out in the remaining m-n individuals. |
Frequency information can be used by differential diagnostic algorithms such as BOQA (62). If possible, HPO annotations are made with the precise counts, but percentages or overall frequency categories are used if that is all that is available. The frequency categories are aligned with those of Orphanet.
Figure 1.Overview of the clinical modifier (A, left) and clinical course (B, right) subontologies. These subontology terms can be used in combination with existing HPO terms to qualify and enrich their meaning. (C) A schematic presentation of one HPO annotation for the disease familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 2 (FCAS2). In a publication on this disease, three of three reported patients were found to have episodic fever with infantile (or earlier) onset that was triggered by exposure to cold (63).
New HPO annotation file format
| Field | Item | Required | Example |
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| 1 | Database ID | Yes | MIM:154700, ORPHA:558 or MONDO:0007947 |
| 2 | DB_Name | Yes | Achondrogenesis, type IB |
| 3 | Qualifier | No | NOT or empty |
| 4 | HPO_ID | Yes | HP:0002487 |
| 5 | DB_Reference | Yes | OMIM:154700 or PMID:15517394 |
| 6 | Evidence | Yes | IEA |
| 7 | Onset | No | HP:0003577 |
| 8 | Frequency | No | HP:0003577 or 12/45 or 22% |
| 9 | Sex | No | MALE or FEMALE |
| 10 | Modifier | No | HP:0025257 |
| 11 | Aspect | Yes | ‘P’ or ‘C’ or ‘I’ or ‘M’ |
| 12 | BiocurationBy | Yes | HPO:skoehler[YYYY-MM-DD] |
The file contains 12 tab-separated fields, some of which can be left empty. The ‘Modifier’ and ‘BiocurationBy’ fields can contain multiple items separated by semicolons. For instance, to indicate that a disease is characterized by a skin rash (HP:0000988) that is Recurrent (HP:0031796) and Triggered by cold (HP:0025206) one would annotate HP:0031796;HP:0025206 in the Modifier column. Many annotations go through multiple stages of biocuration. In this case, the individual biocuration events are also added as a semicolon-separated list.
Figure 2.Screenshot of the new HPO Website application. Users can search for HPO terms, annotated diseases, or disease-associated genes using an autocomplete widget. The hierarchical structure of the ontology is shown in an abbreviated fashion for clarity’s sake. Only the direct parent and child terms of the currently displayed term are shown in the hierarchy. The total number of decedent terms is shown for each term in the hierarchy to help users decide which parts of the ontology to explore.