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Dr. Catherine Brownstein
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Gene Hunting with o1-pro: Reasoning about Rare Diseases with ChatGPT Pro Grantee Dr. Brownstein
Nathan LabenzDr. Catherine Brownstein
Rare-disease sequencing has become nearly 10,000× cheaper, shifting the bottleneck from generating genomes to interpreting negative cases, fragmented literature, and underrepresented population data.Boston Children’s referral diagnosis rate has fallen from roughly 80% to around 10%, while AI already reclaims expert time by summarizing evidence and narrowing 20 candidate genes to three.The OpenAI grant is testing minimum sufficient data and compute for case-solving, but unsupported model leaps, missing citations, and verification requirements keep multidisciplinary humans essential.