Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing

BB Cummings, JL Marshall, T Tukiainen… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Exome and whole-genome sequencing are becoming increasingly routine approaches in
Mendelian disease diagnosis. Despite their success, the current diagnostic rate for genomic …

A guideline for the diagnosis of pediatric mitochondrial disease: the value of muscle and skin biopsies in the genetics era

SB Wortmann, JA Mayr, JM Nuoffer, H Prokisch… - …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Mitochondrial diseases are highly heterogeneous on the clinical, biochemical, and genetic
level. In the traditional diagnostic approach (“biopsy first”) the evaluation of the affected …

The rapid evolution of molecular genetic diagnostics in neuromuscular diseases

AE Volk, C Kubisch - Current Opinion in Neurology, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Next-generation sequencing increasingly enables the detection of the genetic cause in
highly heterogeneous diseases like NMDs in an efficient and affordable way. Gene panel …

Novel GFM2 variants associated with early-onset neurological presentations of mitochondrial disease and impaired expression of OXPHOS subunits

RIC Glasgow, K Thompson, IA Barbosa, L He… - Neurogenetics, 2017 - Springer
Mitochondrial diseases are characterised by clinical, molecular and functional
heterogeneity, reflecting their bi-genomic control. The nuclear gene GFM2 encodes mtEFG2 …

Bridging the gap: the need for genomic and clinical-omics data integration and standardization in overcoming the bottleneck of variant interpretation

LM Furness - Expert Review of Precision Medicine and Drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The arrival of next-generation sequencing has brought about a revolution in
genomic analysis of disease. One of the major bottlenecks delaying uptake of whole exome …

Bioinformatics advances biology and medicine by turning big data troves into knowledge

J Gagneur, C Friedel, V Heun, R Zimmer… - 50 Jahre Universitäts …, 2017 - Springer
Informatics and life sciences (molecular biology and medicine) are undoubtedly the most
rapidly growing, most dynamic endeavors of modern societies. Computational biology or …

Many rare genetic variants have unrecognized large-effect disruptions to exon recognition

R Cheung, KD Insigne, D Yao, CP Burghard, EM Jones… - bioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Any individual's genome contains∼ 4-5 million genetic variants that differ from reference,
and understanding how these variants give rise to trait diversity and disease susceptibility is …

Not by systems alone: replicability assessment of disease expression signals

S Ballouz, M Dörfel, M Crow, J Crain, L Faivre… - bioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
In characterizing a disease, it is common to search for dysfunctional genes by assaying the
transcriptome. The resulting differentially expressed genes are typically assessed for shared …

Séquençage d'exome et de transcriptome: des approches complémentaires pour identifier des gènes impliqués dans la survenue de maladies

A Rötig - médecine/sciences, 2017 - medecinesciences.org
Exemples de variations nucléotidiques conduisant à des modifications quantitatives ou
qualitatives des ARN messagers. A. Variation intronique révélant un site cryptique …

[PDF][PDF] Consequences of DNA variation on gene regulation and human disease via RNA sequencing

DM Bader - 2017 - edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de
With the complete knowledge about the DNA sequence of human and other model
organisms like yeast, the foundation for a new, technology-driven era of biological research …