Disease Modifier
A factor that modifies one or more aspects of a disease, such as sickle cell disease (SCD) (e.g. aspects such as temporal pattern, age of onset and mortality), for specific phenotype(s) of the disease.
Sickle Cell Disease Ontology Project
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curator note
Request inclusion into relevant ontology, These article contains a recent description of disease modifiers for SCD: http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMra1510865 -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562292/ -- -- Paper mentioning haplotypes and severity: -- https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/sickle-cell-anemia-a-look-at-global-8756219 -- -- Initially, the HP term "Clinical Modifier" (HP:0012823) was used to define this class, but its usage was found to be more "ontology-based" than what the SCDO intended.
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SCDO (Jade Hotchkiss)
Phenotypic Modifier