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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gall, Timothy
• Valkanas, Elise
• Bello, Christofer
• Markello, Thomas
• Adams, Christopher
• Bone, William P
• Brandt, Alexander J
• Brazill, Jennifer M
• Carmichael, Lynn
• Davids, Mariska
• Davis, Joie
• Diaz-Perez, Zoraida
• Draper, David
• Elson, Jeremy
• Flynn, Elise D
• Godfrey, Rena
• Groden, Catherine
• Hsieh, Cheng-Kang
• Fischer, Roxanne
• Golas, Gretchen A
• Guzman, Jessica
• Huang, Yan
• Kane, Megan S
• Lee, Elizabeth
• Li, Chong
• Links, Amanda E
• Maduro, Valerie
• Malicdan, May Christine V
• Malik, Fayeza S
• Nehrebecky, Michele
• Park, Joun
• Pemberton, Paul
• Schaffer, Katherine
• Simeonov, Dimitre
• Sincan, Murat
• Smedley, Damian
• Valivullah, Zaheer
• Wahl, Colleen
• Washington, Nicole
• Wolfe, Lynne A
• Xu, Karen
• Zhu, Yi
• Gahl, William A
• Tifft, Cynthia J
• Toro, Camillo
• Adams, David R
• He, Miao
• Robinson, Peter N
• Haendel, Melissa A
• Zhai, R Grace
• Boerkoel, Cornelius F

Titel

Defining Disease, Diagnosis, and Translational Medicine within a Homeostatic Perturbation Paradigm: The National Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Diseases Program Experience

Ist Teil von

• Frontiers in medicine, 2017-05, Vol.4, p.62

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Traditionally, the use of genomic information for personalized medical decisions relies on prior discovery and validation of genotype-phenotype associations. This approach constrains care for patients presenting with undescribed problems. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) hypothesized that defining disease as maladaptation to an ecological niche allows delineation of a logical framework to diagnose and evaluate such patients. Herein, we present the philosophical bases, methodologies, and processes implemented by the NIH UDP. The NIH UDP incorporated use of the Human Phenotype Ontology, developed a genomic alignment strategy cognizant of parental genotypes, pursued agnostic biochemical analyses, implemented functional validation, and established virtual villages of global experts. This systematic approach provided a foundation for the diagnostic or non-diagnostic answers provided to patients and serves as a paradigm for scalable translational research.