The Next, Next-Generation of Sequencing, Promising to Boost Research and Clinical Practice

KR Kumar, MJ Cowley, RL Davis - Seminars in Thrombosis …, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Five years on from our award-winning review on Nextgeneration sequencing and emerging
technologies, 1 a rapid pace of fundamental advances has markedly altered the landscape …

Sequence composition changes in short tandem repeats: heterogeneity, detection, mechanisms and clinical implications

IS Rajan-Babu, E Dolzhenko, MA Eberle… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are a class of repetitive elements, composed of tandem arrays
of 1–6 base pair sequence motifs, that comprise a substantial fraction of the human genome …

Analysis and benchmarking of small and large genomic variants across tandem repeats

AC English, E Dolzhenko, H Ziaei Jam… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tandem repeats (TRs) are highly polymorphic in the human genome, have thousands of
associated molecular traits and are linked to over 60 disease phenotypes. However, they …

HiPhase: jointly phasing small, structural, and tandem repeat variants from HiFi sequencing

JM Holt, CT Saunders, WJ Rowell, Z Kronenberg… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation In diploid organisms, phasing is the problem of assigning the alleles at
heterozygous variants to one of two haplotypes. Reads from PacBio HiFi sequencing …

Enhanced Detection and Genotyping of Disease-Associated Tandem Repeats Using HMMSTR and Targeted Long-Read Sequencing

K Van Deynze, C Mumm, CJ Maltby, JA Switzenberg… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Tandem repeat sequences comprise approximately 8% of the human genome and are
linked to more than 50 neurodegenerative disorders. Accurate characterization of disease …

Unravelling undiagnosed rare disease cases by HiFi long-read genome sequencing

W Steyaert, L Sagath, G Demidov, VA Yepez… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Solve-RD is a pan-European rare disease (RD) research program that aims to identify
disease-causing genetic variants in previously undiagnosed RD families. We utilized 10-fold …

[HTML][HTML] Long-read genome sequencing and variant reanalysis increase diagnostic yield in neurodevelopmental disorders

SM Hiatt, JMJ Lawlor, LH Handley, DR Latner… - medRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Variant detection from long-read genome sequencing (lrGS) has proven to be considerably
more accurate and comprehensive than variant detection from short-read genome …

Towards routine long-read sequencing for rare disease: a national pilot study on chromosomal rearrangements

J Eisfeldt, A Ameur, F Lenner, ET Berk de Boer, M Ek… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Background Clinical genetic laboratories often require comprehensive analysis of
chromosomal rearrangements/structural variants (SVs) which can range from gross …

A phenome-wide association study of tandem repeat variation in 168,554 individuals from the UK Biobank

C Manigbas, B Jadhav, P Garg, M Shadrina, W Lee… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Most genetic association studies focus on binary variants. To identify the effects of multi-
allelic variation of tandem repeats (TRs) on human traits, we performed direct TR genotyping …

Optical genome mapping enables accurate repeat expansion testing

B van der Sanden, K Neveling, S Shukor… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are amongst the most abundant class of variations in human
genomes and are meiotically and mitotically unstable which leads to expansions and …