Title
Evaluation of phenotype-driven gene prioritization methods for Mendelian diseases
Abstract
Yuan et al. recently described an independent evaluation of several phenotype-driven gene prioritization methods for Mendelian disease on two separate, clinical datasets. Although they attempted to use default settings for each tool, we describe three key differences from those we currently recommend for our Exomiser and PhenIX tools. These influence how variant frequency, quality and predicted pathogenicity are used for filtering and prioritization. We propose that these differences account for much of the discrepancy in performance between that reported by them (15-26% diagnoses ranked top by Exomiser) and previously published reports by us and others (72-77%). On a set of 161 singleton samples, we show using these settings increases performance from 34% to 72% and suggest a reassessment of Exomiser and PhenIX on their datasets using these would show a similar uplift.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/BIB/BBAC188
Briefings in Bioinformatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
phenotype,rare disease,variant prioritization
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1477-4054
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julius O B Jacobsen100.34
Catherine Kelly200.34
Valentina Cipriani300.34
Peter N Robinson400.34
Damian Smedley5212.51