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Julia Foreman
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DECIPHER: Supporting the interpretation and sharing of rare disease phenotype-linked...
Julia Foreman
Simon Brent

Julia Foreman

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October 10, 2021
DECIPHER (https://www.deciphergenomics.org) is a free web platform for sharing anonymised phenotype-linked variant data from rare disease patients. Its dynamic interpretation interfaces contextualise genomic and phenotypic data to enable more informed variant interpretation, incorporating international standards for variant classification. DECIPHER supports almost all types of germline and mosaic variation in the nuclear and mitochondrial genome: sequence variants, short tandem repeats, copy-number variants and large structural variants. Patient phenotypes are deposited using Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms, supplemented by quantitative data, which is aggregated to derive gene-specific phenotypic summaries. It hosts data from >250 projects from ~40 countries, openly sharing ~40,000 patient records containing >51,000 variants and >172,000 phenotype terms. The rich phenotype-linked variant data in DECIPHER drives rare disease research and diagnosis by enabling patient matching within DECIPHER and with other resources, and has been cited in >2,600 publications. In this paper, we describe the types of data deposited to DECIPHER, the variant interpretation tools, and patient matching interfaces which make DECIPHER an invaluable rare disease resource.

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