Ref Nonobvious human disease models

[Jon Newman]

I'm working on interpreting what the paper, Systematic discovery of nonobvious human disease models through orthologous phenotypes, is conveying. I'll post some of what I learn here for anyone interested. If anyone has a good handle on the subject matter, please chime in.

My first stumbling block was the title itself. What's an orthologous phenotype?

Here's the wikipedia entry on orthology.

For good measure, here's the entry on phenotype.