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PhenoScanner

General information

URL: http://www.phenoscanner.medschl.cam.ac.uk/
Full name:
Description: a database of human genotype–phenotype associations
Year founded: 2016
Last update: 2016-06-17
Version: v 1.1
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United Kingdom

Classification & Tag

Data type:
DNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Cambridge
Address: Cambridge CB1 8RN
City: Cambridge
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Country/Region: United Kingdom
Contact name (PI/Team):
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): James R. Staley

Publications

27318201
PhenoScanner: a database of human genotype-phenotype associations. [PMID: 27318201]
Staley JR, Blackshaw J, Kamat MA, Ellis S, Surendran P, Sun BB, Paul DS, Freitag D, Burgess S, Danesh J, Young R, Butterworth AS.

PhenoScanner is a curated database of publicly available results from large-scale genetic association studies. This tool aims to facilitate 'phenome scans', the cross-referencing of genetic variants with many phenotypes, to help aid understanding of disease pathways and biology. The database currently contains over 350 million association results and over 10 million unique genetic variants, mostly single nucleotide polymorphisms. It is accompanied by a web-based tool that queries the database for associations with user-specified variants, providing results according to the same effect and non-effect alleles for each input variant. The tool provides the option of searching for trait associations with proxies of the input variants, calculated using the European samples from 1000 Genomes and Hapmap. PhenoScanner is available at www.phenoscanner.medschl.cam.ac.uk CONTACT: jrs95@medschl.cam.ac.ukSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press.

Bioinformatics. 2016:32(20) | 1111 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
143/6895 (97.941%)
Genotype phenotype and variation:
25/1005 (97.612%)
143
Total Rank
1,070
Citations
118.889
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Created on: 2017-04-06
Curated by:
Shixiang Sun [2017-04-06]