HOW TO READ THE EVIDENCE

The number, source, and time window travel with the claim.

This site uses a 61-person cohort snapshot with evidence reviewed through July 23, 2026. This page contains the few rules needed to interpret the rest of the site.

Missing is not negative.

Unreported, unassessed, unresolved, and formally negative remain different states.

Units are not interchangeable.

People, pedigrees, variants, source rows, observations, and model findings are counted separately.

Chronology is not causation.

Timing can define a testable question; it cannot prove mechanism or treatment effect.

COUNTS USED ON THIS SITE

Three compact denominator groups.

Use the labeled subset shown with a figure or statement. Do not read a detailed-case finding as a 61-person frequency.

01

People & evidence depth

How much source material supports the claim?

61
active roster
51
with mapped phenotype evidence
20
record-backed clinical minimum
15
deep longitudinal profiles
02

Molecular analysis

Which records can answer a sequence or variant-class question?

59
exact molecular line visible
49
sequence-defined
32
LoF / truncating
18
missense
3
complex / mixed
5
CNV / deletion
2
protein-undefined splice
1
pending
03

Separate contexts

Visible in the corpus, but not silently converted into independent recurrence.

5
familial-cluster rows
17
co-finding-control rows
21
formal molecular reports
9
direct molecular + clinical subset

Protein and domain analysis: sequence-defined records only.

Recurrence: related people and duplicate public rows are not independent events.

Clinical depth: 20 people meet the strict record-backed clinical minimum; 9 meet the narrower direct molecular-plus-clinical subset. The 21 formal molecular reports answer a different question.

Age: the current-age comparison includes 17 people age 18 or older. The earlier adult/transition source flag contains 16; the difference is one later age-confirmed participant, not a biological change.

Clinical matrix: 411 positive only + 55 positive with negative/unresolved + 12 negative only + 9 unresolved without positive + 428 unreported = 915 person-lane cells. Formal evidence is recorded within 102 of those cells; it is not an additional person count.

EVIDENCE LABELS

Six labels prevent unlike evidence from being blended.

F

Formal record

Original report, laboratory result, imaging, or signed clinical record.

R

Parent-reported formal content

Formal result relayed by a caregiver before the original record is available.

P

Parent-observed history

Direct observation with timing, context, recurrence, and recovery preserved.

V

Visual or media candidate

A visible feature in an image or video; mechanism remains unassigned.

A

Administrative or permission record

Consent, contact, source ownership, translation, or sharing status.

X

Inference or hypothesis

Interpretation or proposed mechanism—not an observed clinical fact.

Boundary marker: “Interpretive boundary” can appear beside a longitudinal summary. It is not a seventh evidence tier; it states what the available F, R, P, V, A, or X material cannot establish.

CHRONOLOGY

A clinical change is read in six parts.

The same sequence is used across development, seizures, movement, sleep, oral–GI, immune, cardiac/autonomic, medication, anesthesia, and daily function.

  1. T0Baseline

    What was usual before the change?

  2. T1Context

    What physiological or environmental window was present?

  3. T2Change

    What exactly changed, for how long, and in which lane?

  4. T3Measurement

    What record or test could answer the question?

  5. T4Intervention

    What changed next, including no intervention?

  6. T5Recovery

    Was return complete, partial, delayed, recurrent, or absent?

PUBLIC BOUNDARY

De-identified and aggregate by default.

Public-source records retain direct citations. Connected-cohort findings are shown at the broadest useful resolution. Names, exact private variants, dates, countries, family structures, and uniquely linkable combinations require documented permission and an appropriate sharing pathway.

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