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The Pathologist / Issues / 2026 / September / Rare Disease AI Puts Variants in Focus
Clinical care Technology and innovation Digital Pathology Digital and computational pathology Genetics and epigenetics

Rare Disease AI Puts Variants in Focus

aiDIVA combines genomic evidence, phenotype matching, machine learning, and language models

09/24/2026 News 2 min read
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5 Key Takeaways
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    The aiDIVA system ranked disease-causing variants among its top three candidates in over 90% of assessed rare disease cases.

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    aiDIVA combines evidence-based scoring, machine learning, phenotype matching, and large language models for clinical assessment.

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    In a benchmark study, aiDIVA placed causal variants within the top three in 97% of cases with variants in ClinVar.

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    The system is a decision-support tool that requires expert review and does not autonomously diagnose rare diseases.

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    aiDIVA's performance for structural variants and in-frame insertions and deletions is currently lower than for single-nucleotide variants.

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