The goal of a clinical analysis is to identify, from millions of patient's variants, a few ones that may explain the disease. Once selected a few variants, they are classified according to a pathogenicity or clinical significance criteria.
For each selected variant, OpenCGA creates a reported variant that mainly, consists of a list of reported events or evidences. An each reported event classifies the variant according to it tier, ACGM value, clinical significance, drug response, trait association and functional effect.
OpenCGA provides two types of clinical analysis depending on the outcome:
