Prenatal phenotyping: A community effort to enhance the Human Phenotype Ontology. Issue 2 (24th July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dhombres, Ferdinand; Morgan, Patricia; Chaudhari, Bimal P.; Filges, Isabel; Sparks, Teresa N.; Lapunzina, Pablo; Roscioli, Tony; Agarwal, Umber; Aggarwal, Shagun; Beneteau, Claire; Cacheiro, Pilar; Carmody, Leigh C.; Collardeau‐Frachon, Sophie; Dempsey, Esther A.; Dufke, Andreas; Duyzend, Michael Henri; el Ghosh, Mirna; Giordano, Jessica L.; Glad, Ragnhild; Grinfelde, Ieva; Iliescu, Dominic G.; Ladewig, Markus S.; Munoz‐Torres, Monica C.; Pollazzon, Marzia; Radio, Francesca Clementina; Rodo, Carlota; Silva, Raquel Gouveia; Smedley, Damian; Sundaramurthi, Jagadish Chandrabose; Toro, Sabrina; Valenzuela, Irene; Vasilevsky, Nicole A.; Wapner, Ronald J.; Zemet, Roni; Haendel, Melissa A; Robinson, Peter N.;
• Other Names: Brower Amy guestEditor.; Chan Kee guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: American journal of medical genetics. Volume 190:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 231
• Page End: 242
• Publication Date: 2022-07-24
• Subjects: HPO -- human phenotype ontology -- GA4GH Phenopacket -- prenatal diagnosis -- fetal pathology -- prenatal phenotyping; Medical genetics -- Periodicals; 616.04205
• DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31989
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-4868

Abstract

Abstract: Technological advances in both genome sequencing and prenatal imaging are increasing our ability to accurately recognize and diagnose Mendelian conditions prenatally. Phenotype‐driven early genetic diagnosis of fetal genetic disease can help to strategize treatment options and clinical preventive measures during the perinatal period, to plan in utero therapies, and to inform parental decision‐making. Fetal phenotypes of genetic diseases are often unique and at present are not well understood; more comprehensive knowledge about prenatal phenotypes and computational resources have an enormous potential to improve diagnostics and translational research. The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) has been widely used to support diagnostics and translational research in human genetics. To better support prenatal usage, the HPO consortium conducted a series of workshops with a group of domain experts in a variety of medical specialties, diagnostic techniques, as well as diseases and phenotypes related to prenatal medicine, including perinatal pathology, musculoskeletal anomalies, neurology, medical genetics, hydrops fetalis, craniofacial malformations, cardiology, neonatal‐perinatal medicine, fetal medicine, placental pathology, prenatal imaging, and bioinformatics. We expanded the representation of prenatal phenotypes in HPO by adding 95 new phenotype terms under the Abnormality of prenatal development or birth (HP:0001197) grouping term, and revised definitions, synonyms, and disease annotations for most of the 152 terms that existed before the beginning of this effort. The expansion of prenatal phenotypes in HPO will support phenotype‐driven prenatal exome and genome sequencing for precision genetic diagnostics of rare diseases to support prenatal care.