Long‐read sequencing for molecular diagnostics in constitutional genetic disorders

LK Conlin, E Aref‐Eshghi, DA McEldrew… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐read sequencing (LRS) has been around for more than a decade, but widespread
adoption of the technology has been slow due to the perceived high error rates and high …

Clinical implementation of RNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnostics

VA Yépez, M Gusic, R Kopajtich, C Mertes, NH Smith… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Lack of functional evidence hampers variant interpretation, leaving a large
proportion of individuals with a suspected Mendelian disorder without genetic diagnosis …

Patient derived stem cells for discovery and validation of novel pathogenic variants in inherited retinal disease

NK Mullin, AP Voigt, JA Cooke, LR Bohrer… - Progress in retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Our understanding of inherited retinal disease has benefited immensely from molecular
genetic analysis over the past several decades. New technologies that allow for increasingly …

Poison exon annotations improve the yield of clinically relevant variants in genomic diagnostic testing

SA Felker, JMJ Lawlor, SM Hiatt, ML Thompson… - Genetics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) often result from rare genetic
variation, but genomic testing yield for NDDs remains below 50%, suggesting that clinically …

Lessons learnt from multifaceted diagnostic approaches to the first 150 families in Victoria's Undiagnosed Diseases Program

T Cloney, L Gallacher, LS Pais, NB Tan… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Clinical exome sequencing typically achieves diagnostic yields of 30%–57.5%
in individuals with monogenic rare diseases. Undiagnosed diseases programmes …

Expansion of NEUROD2 phenotypes to include developmental delay without seizures

EK Mis, AG Sega, RH Signer… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
De novo heterozygous variants in the brain‐specific transcription factor Neuronal
Differentiation Factor 2 (NEUROD2) have been recently associated with early‐onset …

Genome-based targeted sequencing as a reproducible microbial community profiling assay

J Benjamino, B Leopold, D Phillips, MD Adams - Msphere, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Current sequencing-based methods for profiling microbial communities rely on marker gene
(eg, 16S rRNA) or metagenome shotgun sequencing (mWGS) analysis. We present an …

[PDF][PDF] The genetic basis of childhood-onset hereditary ataxias in Finland

E Ignatius - 2022 - helda.helsinki.fi
Ataxia involves incoordination of balance, gait, extremity movements, eye movements, and
dysarthria. Hereditary ataxia has a heterogeneous genetic background, with hundreds of …

[PDF][PDF] Breaking New Grounds with Emerging Paradigm of Genomic Signatures and Gene Expressions Generated from Single Cell RNA Transcriptomics: Through …

LN Ozurumba-Dwight - Int J Family Med Healthcare, 2022 - scivisionpub.com
Transcriptomics is the science of transcript analysis and comprises a list of strings called
reads while Transcriptome is the full range of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules …

Genome-Based Targeted Sequencing as a Reproducible Microbial Community Profiling Assay

B Jacquelynn, B Leopold, D Phillips, MD Adams - mSphere, 2021 - search.proquest.com
Current sequencing-based methods for profiling microbial communities rely on marker gene
(eg, 16S rRNA) or metagenome shotgun sequencing (mWGS) analysis. We present an …