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Kemal Yaylali 07a01715fd feat: redesign around phenotype-driven triage, not variant filtering
A table with filters made the user do the work. Rare disease triage is a different task:
which few variants could explain *this* patient's phenotype, and why. The app now answers
that, and lets a reviewer act on the answer.

Domain
- a case is a proband: a VCF plus the HPO terms observed in the patient (samples -> cases)
- HPO's gene-to-phenotype annotations are loaded as reference data (scripts/load-hpo.py)
- each candidate can be shortlisted or dismissed with a reason and a note

Ranking (app/services/triage.py, 21 tests)
- weighted sum of phenotype match, rarity, consequence severity and the model's score,
  with every component shown next to the candidate
- rarity and consequence filter; phenotype only ranks, because a real diagnosis can sit in
  a gene nobody has annotated yet and filtering on it would hide exactly that case
- ClinVar is deliberately not an input: it appears beside the result as independent
  confirmation, so nothing ranks highly merely because ClinVar already said pathogenic

UI
- the funnel is the headline: variants called -> rare -> coding candidates -> phenotype-matched
- ranked candidates with evidence chips, not a grid of everything; filters are demoted
- a variant panel showing the score breakdown, the matched HPO terms, the raw VEP record and
  links out to Ensembl/gnomAD/ClinVar, with the decision controls
- a printable case report: phenotype, funnel, shortlisted variants with reasons, provenance

API: /cases with phenotypes, /cases/{id}/candidates (funnel + ranked + weights),
/variants/{id}, /variants/{id}/decision, /cases/{id}/report, /phenotypes for the picker.
Scoring moved under the case and now answers 503 with the reason when no model registry is
reachable, instead of a 500.

Verified end to end on a simulated proband (scripts/make-demo-case.sh: real GIAB HG002
background + one real ClinVar 2-star pathogenic NF2 variant). 13 variants called -> 1 coding
candidate, and the planted variant ranks first at 0.80 on phenotype 1.00, rarity 1.00 and
consequence 1.00, with ClinVar agreeing afterwards.

Tests: api 75, ml 18, loader 16, web 27; ruff, mypy, svelte-check, terraform validate, both
kustomize overlays and the Nextflow stub run all clean.
2026-09-12 08:30:44 +01:00

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from fastapi import APIRouter, HTTPException
from sqlalchemy import func, select
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert
from sqlalchemy.orm import selectinload
from app.db import SessionDep
from app.models import Variant, VariantDecision
from app.schemas import CandidateOut, DecisionIn, DecisionOut, VariantDetailOut
from app.services import candidates as case_view
from app.services import triage
router = APIRouter()
@router.get("/{variant_id}", response_model=VariantDetailOut)
async def get_variant(variant_id: int, session: SessionDep) -> VariantDetailOut:
"""Every piece of evidence for one variant, including the raw VEP record."""
variant = await session.scalar(
select(Variant)
.where(Variant.id == variant_id)
.options(
selectinload(Variant.prediction),
selectinload(Variant.decision),
selectinload(Variant.job),
)
)
if variant is None:
raise HTTPException(404, "variant not found")
case = await case_view.get_case(session, variant.job.case_id)
terms = [p.hpo_id for p in case.phenotypes] if case else []
gene_terms = await case_view.gene_terms_for(session, {variant.gene} if variant.gene else set())
# evaluate, not rank: the panel must work for a variant that did not make the candidate list.
scored = triage.evaluate(variant, terms, gene_terms)
labels = {p.hpo_id: p.label for p in case.phenotypes} if case else {}
base = CandidateOut.from_candidate(scored, labels).model_dump()
return VariantDetailOut(**base, annotations=variant.annotations or {})
@router.post("/{variant_id}/decision", response_model=DecisionOut)
async def decide(variant_id: int, payload: DecisionIn, session: SessionDep) -> DecisionOut:
if await session.get(Variant, variant_id) is None:
raise HTTPException(404, "variant not found")
stmt = insert(VariantDecision).values(
variant_id=variant_id, state=payload.state, reason=payload.reason, note=payload.note
)
# Changing your mind replaces the call rather than failing on the unique constraint.
await session.execute(
stmt.on_conflict_do_update(
index_elements=[VariantDecision.variant_id],
set_={
"state": stmt.excluded.state,
"reason": stmt.excluded.reason,
"note": stmt.excluded.note,
"decided_at": func.now(),
},
)
)
await session.commit()
decision = await session.scalar(
select(VariantDecision).where(VariantDecision.variant_id == variant_id)
)
return DecisionOut.model_validate(decision)