{"id":2147,"date":"2026-02-19T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:50:33","slug":"reasoning-based-ai-in-rare-disease-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/2026\/02\/19\/reasoning-based-ai-in-rare-disease-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasoning Based AI in Rare Disease Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study in Nature marks a conceptual advance in medical genetics by reframing rare disease diagnosis as a coordinated reasoning task rather than a static prediction problem. The proposed agentic system orchestrates phenotype, genotype, and knowledge retrieval modules under a large language model host, generating ranked hypotheses with transparent, evidence linked logic. It is training light and dynamically updatable, addressing data scarcity and evolving gene disease knowledge. 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