Next-generation sequencing to diagnose suspected genetic disorders

DR Adams, CM Eng - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing—A Wild Frontier The technologies and chemistries
underlying next-generation sequencing of DNA are evolving rapidly. This review describes …

Interpretation and actionability of genetic variants in cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the European Society of Cardiology Council on cardiovascular …

E Arbustini, ER Behr, L Carrier, C van Duijn… - European heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This document describes the contribution of clinical criteria to the interpretation of genetic
variants using heritable Mendelian cardiomyopathies as an example. The aim is to assist …

A framework for individualized splice-switching oligonucleotide therapy

J Kim, S Woo, CM de Gusmao, B Zhao, DH Chin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) could be used to treat a subset of
individuals with genetic diseases, but the systematic identification of such individuals …

Expert specification of the ACMG/AMP variant interpretation guidelines for genetic hearing loss

AM Oza, MT DiStefano, SE Hemphill… - Human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the high genetic heterogeneity of hearing loss (HL), current clinical testing includes
sequencing large numbers of genes, which often yields a significant number of novel …

Population genetic screening efficiently identifies carriers of autosomal dominant diseases

JJ Grzymski, G Elhanan, JA Morales Rosado, E Smith… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Three inherited autosomal dominant conditions—BRCA-related hereditary breast and
ovarian cancer (HBOC), Lynch syndrome (LS) and familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) …

Prevalence estimates of predicted pathogenic COL4A3–COL4A5 variants in a population sequencing database and their implications for Alport syndrome

J Gibson, R Fieldhouse, MMY Chan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background The reported prevalence of Alport syndrome varies from one in 5000 to one in
53,000 individuals. This study estimated the frequencies of predicted pathogenic COL4A3 …

Germ line predisposition variants occur in myelodysplastic syndrome patients of all ages

S Feurstein, AM Trottier, N Estrada-Merly… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
The frequency of pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) germ line variants in patients with
myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) diagnosed at age 40 years or less is 15% to 20 …

Specifications of the ACMG/AMP standards and guidelines for mitochondrial DNA variant interpretation

EM McCormick, MT Lott, MC Dulik, L Shen… - Human …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variant pathogenicity interpretation has special considerations
given unique features of the mtDNA genome, including maternal inheritance, variant …

Consensus statement on standards and guidelines for the molecular diagnostics of Alport syndrome: refining the ACMG criteria

J Savige, H Storey, E Watson, JM Hertz… - European journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The recent Chandos House meeting of the Alport Variant Collaborative extended
the indications for screening for pathogenic variants in the COL4A5, COL4A3 and COL4A4 …

Systematic evaluation of genome sequencing for the diagnostic assessment of autism spectrum disorder and fetal structural anomalies

C Lowther, E Valkanas, JL Giordano, HZ Wang… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Short-read genome sequencing (GS) holds the promise of becoming the primary diagnostic
approach for the assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fetal structural …