Beyond the exome: what's next in diagnostic testing for Mendelian conditions

MH Wojcik, CM Reuter, S Marwaha… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Despite advances in clinical genetic testing, including the introduction of exome sequencing
(ES), more than 50% of individuals with a suspected Mendelian condition lack a precise …

Precision medicine in rare diseases: What is next?

B Tesi, C Boileau, KM Boycott… - Journal of Internal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular diagnostics is a cornerstone of modern precision medicine, broadly understood
as tailoring an individual's treatment, follow‐up, and care based on molecular data. In rare …

[HTML][HTML] Standardized practices for RNA diagnostics using clinically accessible specimens reclassifies 75% of putative splicing variants

AM Bournazos, LG Riley, S Bommireddipalli, L Ades… - Genetics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Genetic variants causing aberrant premessenger RNA splicing are increasingly
being recognized as causal variants in genetic disorders. In this study, we devise …

Genomic analyses in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and related diagnoses: Novel candidate genes, genotype–phenotype correlations and common mechanisms

M Kaur, J Blair, B Devkota, S Fortunato… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is a rare, dominantly inherited multisystem
developmental disorder characterized by highly variable manifestations of growth and …

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 …

Solving the unsolved genetic epilepsies: Current and future perspectives

KM Johannesen, Z Tümer, S Weckhuysen… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many patients with epilepsy undergo exome or genome sequencing as part of a diagnostic
workup; however, many remain genetically unsolved. There are various factors that account …

Analysis of transcript-deleterious variants in Mendelian disorders: implications for RNA-based diagnostics

S Maddirevula, H Kuwahara, N Ewida, HE Shamseldin… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background At least 50% of patients with suspected Mendelian disorders remain
undiagnosed after whole-exome sequencing (WES), and the extent to which non-coding …

Integrative omics approaches to advance rare disease diagnostics

D Smirnov, N Konstantinovskiy… - Journal of Inherited …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade high‐throughput DNA sequencing approaches, namely whole exome
and whole genome sequencing became a standard procedure in Mendelian disease …

Rapid genome sequencing for pediatrics

J Jezkova, S Shaw, NV Taverner… - Human Mutation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The advancements made in next‐generation sequencing (NGS) technology over the past
two decades have transformed our understanding of genetic variation in humans and had a …

Toward transcriptomics as a primary tool for rare disease investigation

SB Montgomery, JA Bernstein… - Molecular Case …, 2022 - molecularcasestudies.cshlp.org
In the past 5 years transcriptome or RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has steadily emerged as a
complementary assay for rare disease diagnosis and discovery. In this perspective, we …