Identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders using deep learning

Y Gurovich, Y Hanani, O Bar, G Nadav, N Fleischer… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Syndromic genetic conditions, in aggregate, affect 8% of the population 1 . Many syndromes
have recognizable facial features 2 that are highly informative to clinical geneticists 3 , 4 – 5 …

GestaltMatcher facilitates rare disease matching using facial phenotype descriptors

…, MA Mensah, D Horn, S Rosnev, N Fleischer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many monogenic disorders cause a characteristic facial morphology. Artificial intelligence can
support physicians in recognizing these patterns by associating facial phenotypes with the …

[HTML][HTML] PEDIA: prioritization of exome data by image analysis

…, C Fauth, B Fischer-Zirnsak, N Fleischer… - Genetics in …, 2019 - nature.com
Purpose Phenotype information is crucial for the interpretation of genomic variants. So far it
has only been accessible for bioinformatics workflows after encoding into clinical terms by …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis defects by clinical features, flow cytometry, and automated image analysis

…, TC Hsieh, M Schubach, Y Gurovich, N Fleischer… - Genome Medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis defects (GPIBDs) cause a group of
phenotypically overlapping recessive syndromes with intellectual disability, for which …

CADA: phenotype-driven gene prioritization based on a case-enriched knowledge graph

…, T Kamphans, G Nadav, N Fleischer… - NAR Genomics and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Many rare syndromes can be well described and delineated from other disorders by a
combination of characteristic symptoms. These phenotypic features are best documented with …

Advances in computer‐assisted syndrome recognition by the example of inborn errors of metabolism

…, TC Hsieh, Y Hanani, N Fleischer… - Journal of Inherited …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Significant improvements in automated image analysis have been achieved in recent years
and tools are now increasingly being used in computer‐assisted syndromology. However, …

DeepGestalt-identifying rare genetic syndromes using deep learning

Y Gurovich, Y Hanani, O Bar, N Fleischer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Facial analysis technologies have recently measured up to the capabilities of expert clinicians
in syndrome identification. To date, these technologies could only identify phenotypes of a …

Biallelic variants in CRIPT cause a Rothmund-Thomson-like syndrome with increased cellular senescence

…, W Jin, J Schaper, JA Omer, T Demaret, N Fleischer… - Genetics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS) is characterized by poikiloderma, sparse hair,
small stature, skeletal defects, cancer, and cataracts, resembling features of premature …

[PDF][PDF] De novo variants of CSNK2B cause a new intellectual disability-craniodigital syndrome by disrupting the canonical Wnt signaling pathway

…, J Altmüller, H Thiele, S Motameny, N Fleischer… - Human Genetics and …, 2022 - cell.com
CSNK2B encodes for casein kinase II subunit beta (CK2β), the regulatory subunit of casein
kinase II (CK2), which is known to mediate diverse cellular pathways. Variants in this gene …

But what will the results be?: Learning to tolerate uncertainty is associated with treatment-produced gains

…, LS Rifkin, LA Norris, M Knepley, NJ Fleischer… - Journal of anxiety …, 2019 - Elsevier
The current study examined the association between changes in intolerance of uncertainty (IU)
and treatment outcomes for anxious youth. Participants were youth ages 7 to 17 who …