Best practices for variant calling in clinical sequencing

DC Koboldt - Genome Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled a dramatic expansion of clinical
genetic testing both for inherited conditions and diseases such as cancer. Accurate variant …

Genetic testing in neurodevelopmental disorders

JM Savatt, SM Myers - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopmental disorders are the most prevalent chronic medical conditions
encountered in pediatric primary care. In addition to identifying appropriate descriptive …

Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources

S Köhler, L Carmody, N Vasilevsky… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)—a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic
abnormalities associated with 7000+ diseases—is used by thousands of researchers …

Meta-analysis of the diagnostic and clinical utility of genome and exome sequencing and chromosomal microarray in children with suspected genetic diseases

MM Clark, Z Stark, L Farnaes, TY Tan, SM White… - NPJ genomic …, 2018 - nature.com
Genetic diseases are leading causes of childhood mortality. Whole-genome sequencing
(WGS) and whole-exome sequencing (WES) are relatively new methods for diagnosing …

Improved diagnostic yield compared with targeted gene sequencing panels suggests a role for whole-genome sequencing as a first-tier genetic test

AC Lionel, G Costain, N Monfared, S Walker… - Genetics in …, 2018 - nature.com
Purpose Genetic testing is an integral diagnostic component of pediatric medicine. Standard
of care is often a time-consuming stepwise approach involving chromosomal microarray …

Use of exome sequencing for infants in intensive care units: ascertainment of severe single-gene disorders and effect on medical management

L Meng, M Pammi, A Saronwala, P Magoulas… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance While congenital malformations and genetic diseases are a leading cause of
early infant death, to our knowledge, the contribution of single-gene disorders in this group …

Diagnosis of genetic diseases in seriously ill children by rapid whole-genome sequencing and automated phenotyping and interpretation

MM Clark, A Hildreth, S Batalov, Y Ding… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
By informing timely targeted treatments, rapid whole-genome sequencing can improve the
outcomes of seriously ill children with genetic diseases, particularly infants in neonatal and …

The landscape of genetic diseases in Saudi Arabia based on the first 1000 diagnostic panels and exomes

D Monies, M Abouelhoda, M AlSayed, Z Alhassnan… - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
In this study, we report the experience of the only reference clinical next-generation
sequencing lab in Saudi Arabia with the first 1000 families who span a wide-range of …

De novo variants in neurodevelopmental disorders with epilepsy

HO Heyne, T Singh, H Stamberger, R Abou Jamra… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Epilepsy is a frequent feature of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), but little is known
about genetic differences between NDDs with and without epilepsy. We analyzed de novo …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation sequencing for constitutional variants in the clinical laboratory, 2021 revision: a technical standard of the American College of Medical …

C Rehder, LJH Bean, D Bick, E Chao, W Chung… - Genetics in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are now established in clinical laboratories
as a primary testing modality in genomic medicine. These technologies have reduced the …