Patent Document ID: 8538704
Application ID: 13157502

Base Claim:
1. A method, implemented by a computing device, in a healthcare information technology system for providing inferred genetic findings for a person, the method comprising: receiving a request issued by a user for genetic test results for a subject gene for a person; incident to receiving the request, accessing a first data store to discover whether there exists the genetic test results for the person; and when the genetic test results of the person are undiscovered, automatically inferring, at the computing device, one or more genetic findings, wherein the process of inferring comprises: (a) accessing an inference table that associates genes with a plurality of modes of inheritance; (b) identifying a mode of inheritance associated with the subject gene by querying the inference table with the subject gene; (c) determining a traversal pattern of the subject gene within a family of the person as a function of the identified mode of inheritance; (d) employing the traversal pattern to target at least one member of the family of the person that potentially carries the subject gene; (e) accessing a second data store to discover whether there exists genetic test results for the at least one targeted member of the person's family; and (f) when the genetic test results of the at least one targeted member of the person's family are discovered, calculating a probability that the person exhibits a mutated form of the subject gene using the genetic test results of the at least one targeted member of the person's family.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, when the mode of inheritance associated with the subject gene involves at least one of targeting the at least one member of the family of the person within the person's female ancestors, targeting the at least one member of the family of the person within any of the person's blood-related ancestors, or targeting the at least one member of the family of the person within the person's male ancestors or the person's decedents if the person is a male.