Table_2_Curation and expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology for systemic autoinflammatory diseases improves phenotype-driven disease-matching.xlsx

IntroductionAccurate and standardized phenotypic descriptions are essential in diagnosing rare diseases and discovering new diseases, and the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) system was developed to provide a rich collection of hierarchical phenotypic descriptions. However, although the HPO terms for inborn errors of immunity have been improved and curated, it has not been investigated whether this curation improves the diagnosis of systemic autoinflammatory disease (SAID) patients. Here, we aimed to study if improved HPO annotation for SAIDs enhanced SAID identification and to demonstrate the potential of phenotype-driven genome diagnostics using curated HPO terms for SAIDs.MethodsWe collected HPO terms from 98 genetically confirmed SAID patients across eight different European SAID expertise centers and used the LIRICAL (Likelihood Ratio Interpretation of Clinical Abnormalities) computational algorithm to estimate the effect of HPO curation on the prioritization of the correct SAID for each patient.ResultsOur results show that the percentage of correct diagnoses increased from 66% to 86% and that the number of diagnoses with the highest ranking increased from 38 to 45. In a further pilot study, curation also improved HPO-based whole-exome sequencing (WES) analysis, diagnosing 10/12 patients before and 12/12 after curation. In addition, the average number of candidate diseases that needed to be interpreted decreased from 35 to 2.DiscussionThis study demonstrates that curation of HPO terms can increase identification of the correct diagnosis, emphasizing the high potential of HPO-based genome diagnostics for SAIDs.

精确且标准化的表型描述对于罕见疾病的诊断及新疾病的发现至关重要。为此，人类表型本体（Human Phenotype Ontology，HPO）系统得以构建，旨在提供丰富的层次化表型描述集合。尽管针对先天性免疫缺陷的HPO术语已经得到改进和整理，但尚未探究这种整理是否能够提升系统性自身炎症疾病（Systemic Autoinflammatory Disease，SAID）患者的诊断准确性。本研究旨在探究优化后的HPO标注是否能够增强SAID的识别，并展示利用经过整理的HPO术语进行表型驱动基因组诊断的潜力。方法上，我们从八个不同欧洲SAID专业中心收集了98例遗传确诊的SAID患者的HPO术语，并运用LIRICAL（临床异常似然比解释）计算算法评估HPO整理对每位患者正确SAID优先级的影响。结果显示，正确诊断的百分比从66%提升至86%，最高排名的诊断数量从38增至45。在进一步的试点研究中，整理还改善了基于HPO的全外显子组测序（Whole-Exome Sequencing，WES）分析，整理前对10/12患者进行诊断，整理后对12/12患者进行诊断。此外，平均需要解释的候选疾病数量从35减少至2。讨论部分指出，本研究证实了HPO术语的整理能够提高正确诊断的识别率，凸显了基于HPO的基因组诊断在SAID中的巨大潜力。