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Melody C. Carter

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  74
Citations -  3453

Melody C. Carter is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Systemic mastocytosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 55 publications receiving 2517 citations. Previous affiliations of Melody C. Carter include Kenya Medical Research Institute & University of Virginia Health System.

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Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources

Sebastian Köhler, +69 more
TL;DR: The HPO’s interoperability with other ontologies has enabled it to be used to improve diagnostic accuracy by incorporating model organism data and plays a key role in the popular Exomiser tool, which identifies potential disease-causing variants from whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing data.
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Cutaneous manifestations in patients with mastocytosis: Consensus report of the European Competence Network on Mastocytosis; the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; and the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology

TL;DR: It is recommended that the typical maculopapular cutaneous lesions (urticaria pigmentosa) should be subdivided into 2 variants, namely a monomorphic variant with small maculipapular lesions, which is typically seen in adult patients, and a polymorphic variant with larger lesions of variable size and shape, which has important prognostic implications.
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Asthma and Indoor Exposure to Allergens

TL;DR: The increase in the prevalence and severity of asthma over the past 35 years has been observed in perennial rather than seasonal disease and in many different countries, and has been most marked in population groups of lower socioeconomic status.