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Affecting one to two in a million annually, stiff person syndrome (SPS) is an RND characterized by painful muscle spasms and rigidity. Leveraging underutilized electronic health records (EHR), this study showcased a machine-learning-based framework to identify clinical features that optimally characterize the diagnosis of SPS.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A machine-learning-based feature selection approach was employed on 319 items from the past medical histories of 48 individuals (23 with a diagnosis of SPS and 25 controls) with elevated serum autoantibodies against glutamic-acid-decarboxylase-65 (anti-GAD65) in Dartmouth Health\u2019s EHR to determine features with the highest discriminatory power. Each iteration of the algorithm implemented a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model, generating importance scores\u2014SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) values\u2014for each feature and removing one with the least salient. Evaluation metrics were calculated through repeated stratified cross-validation.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Depression, hypothyroidism, GERD, and joint pain were the most characteristic features of SPS. Utilizing these features, the SVM model attained precision of 0.817 (95% CI 0.795\u20130.840), sensitivity of 0.766 (95% CI 0.743\u20130.790), F-score of 0.761 (95% CI 0.744\u20130.778), AUC of 0.808 (95% CI 0.791\u20130.825), and accuracy of 0.775 (95% CI 0.759\u20130.790).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This framework discerned features that, with further research, may help fully characterize the pathologic mechanism of SPS: depression, hypothyroidism, and GERD may respectively represent comorbidities through common inflammatory, genetic, and dysautonomic links. 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