Bioinformatics and computational tools for next-generation sequencing analysis in clinical genetics

R Pereira, J Oliveira, M Sousa - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
Clinical genetics has an important role in the healthcare system to provide a definitive
diagnosis for many rare syndromes. It also can have an influence over genetics prevention …

Sequencing pools of individuals—mining genome-wide polymorphism data without big funding

C Schlötterer, R Tobler, R Kofler, V Nolte - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
The analysis of polymorphism data is becoming increasingly important as a complementary
tool to classical genetic analyses. Nevertheless, despite plunging sequencing costs …

Synonymous mutations in representative yeast genes are mostly strongly non-neutral

X Shen, S Song, C Li, J Zhang - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Synonymous mutations in protein-coding genes do not alter protein sequences and are thus
generally presumed to be neutral or nearly neutral,,,–. Here, to experimentally verify this …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory bowel disease: genetics, epigenetics, and pathogenesis

I Loddo, C Romano - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are complex, multifactorial disorders characterized by
chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation. Although etiology remains largely unknown, recent …

[HTML][HTML] The next-generation sequencing revolution and its impact on genomics

DC Koboldt, KM Steinberg, DE Larson, RK Wilson… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Genomics is a relatively new scientific discipline, having DNA sequencing as its core
technology. As technology has improved the cost and scale of genome characterization over …

New insights into the generation and role of de novo mutations in health and disease

R Acuna-Hidalgo, JA Veltman, A Hoischen - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Aside from inheriting half of the genome of each of our parents, we are born with a small
number of novel mutations that occurred during gametogenesis and postzygotically. Recent …

Next-generation diagnostics and disease-gene discovery with the Exomiser

D Smedley, JOB Jacobsen, M Jäger, S Köhler… - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
Exomiser is an application that prioritizes genes and variants in next-generation sequencing
(NGS) projects for novel disease-gene discovery or differential diagnostics of Mendelian …

A survey of tools for variant analysis of next-generation genome sequencing data

S Pabinger, A Dander, M Fischer… - Briefings in …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in genome sequencing technologies provide unprecedented opportunities
to characterize individual genomic landscapes and identify mutations relevant for diagnosis …

Solving the molecular diagnostic testing conundrum for Mendelian disorders in the era of next-generation sequencing: single-gene, gene panel, or exome/genome …

Y Xue, A Ankala, WR Wilcox, MR Hegde - Genetics in Medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing is changing the paradigm of clinical genetic testing. Today
there are numerous molecular tests available, including single-gene tests, gene panels, and …

A Post‐Hoc Comparison of the Utility of S anger Sequencing and Exome Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Heterogeneous Diseases

K Neveling, I Feenstra, C Gilissen… - Human …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of massive parallel sequencing is rapidly changing the strategies employed for
the genetic diagnosis and research of rare diseases that involve a large number of genes …