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25 to 30M Americans living with rare diseases

Rare Diseases - NIH Turning Discovery Into Health

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2025)

"But though such diseases are individually rare, collectively an estimated 25 to 30 million Americans are affected."
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4 to 5 years average diagnostic delay

Time to diagnosis for a rare disease: managing medical uncertainty

Phillips et al., Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases (2024)

"People with a rare disease commonly experience long delays from onset of symptoms to diagnosis (average time 4-5 years but often much longer)..."
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Millions of families navigating rare diseases

Bringing Hope and Healthcare to Millions of Americans with Rare Diseases

Rep. Paul D. Tonko, U.S. House of Representatives (2023)

"An estimated 25-30 million Americans are living with one of these rare diseases... These conditions affect millions of families and impact every community across our country."
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Transformer models analyze millions of data points in milliseconds

Mixture of Experts explained simply

Louis-Francois Bouchard (WhatsAI) (2024)

"If we... ask you to do [1.8 million million parameter multiplications], it would take... 57,000 years! ... Yet, transformer models do this in milliseconds."
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Models validated against gold standard clinical datasets

Real-world evaluation of deep learning algorithms to classify functional pathogenic variants

Chow et al., PMC Journal (2023)

"Deep learning models for variant pathogenicity prediction have recently been developed that can independently recapitulate known pathogenicity annotations from gold-standard references such as the expert-curated ClinVar database."
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Continuous learning with regulatory alignment

Ever-Evolving Regulatory Landscape for AI in Healthcare

Bottini et al., Neurospine Journal (2025)

"The FDA addresses the challenge of continuous learning from the real world in AI systems through its Predetermined Change Control Plans... This plan ensures that any updates or modifications maintain the system's safety and effectiveness."
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ClinGen as gold standard for variant curation

ClinGen Variant Curation Expert Panel

ClinGen Expert Panel via ClinVar (NIH) (2024)

"The ClinGen VCEPs are highly regarded as the gold-standard for gene-specific variant curation... developed after extensive evaluation of the evidence using the 2015 ACMG/AMP guidelines as a backbone."
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Interpretations align with ACMG/AMP guidelines

A Practical Guide to Clinical Variant Interpretation

Euformatics (2023)

"Additionally, adhering to industry standards such as ACMG, AMP... guidelines ensures credibility and reliability, making variant interpretation a robust and clinically impactful process."
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Evidence synthesis from ClinVar, ACMG, and peer reviewed literature

A Practical Guide to Clinical Variant Interpretation

Euformatics (2023)

"ClinVar... collects reports of genetic variants and their clinical significance. It allows you to cross-reference a variant with prior classifications, literature citations, and supporting evidence..."
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PharmGKB for pharmacogenomic knowledge

PharmGKB, an Integrated Resource of Pharmacogenomic Knowledge

Gong et al., Stanford University (2021)

"The Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase (PharmGKB) is an integrated online knowledge resource for understanding how genetic variation affects drug response... As of April 2021, the annotated content of PharmGKB spans... 165 clinical guidelines and 784 drug labels."
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BRCA2 c.5946delT pathogenic classification

ClinVar Miner - BRCA2 c.5946delT submissions

ClinVar Miner, University of Utah (2025)

"BRCA2 c.5946delT (p.Ser1982fs) - a known Ashkenazi Jewish founder mutation (aka 6174delT) - is listed in ClinVar with Total submissions: 78, including multiple clinical labs all reporting it as Pathogenic."
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