J-Wave syndromes expert consensus conference report: emerging concepts and gaps in knowledge

C Antzelevitch, GX Yan, MJ Ackerman, M Borggrefe… - Europace, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The J-wave syndromes (JWSs), consisting of the Brugada syndrome (BrS) and early
repolarization syndrome (ERS), have captured the interest of the cardiology community over …

Genetic purgatory and the cardiac channelopathies: exposing the variants of uncertain/unknown significance issue

MJ Ackerman - Heart rhythm, 2015 - Elsevier
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines purgatory as “an intermediate state after death
for expiatory purification” or more specifically as “a place or state of punishment wherein …

Enhanced Classification of Brugada Syndrome–Associated and Long-QT Syndrome–Associated Genetic Variants in the SCN5A-Encoded Nav1.5 Cardiac Sodium …

JD Kapplinger, JR Giudicessi, D Ye… - Circulation …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—A 2% to 5% background rate of rare SCN5A nonsynonymous single
nucleotide variants (nsSNVs) among healthy individuals confounds clinical genetic testing …

[HTML][HTML] Disease-specific variant pathogenicity prediction significantly improves variant interpretation in inherited cardiac conditions

X Zhang, R Walsh, N Whiffin, R Buchan… - Genetics in …, 2021 - nature.com
Purpose Accurate discrimination of benign and pathogenic rare variation remains a priority
for clinical genome interpretation. State-of-the-art machine learning variant prioritization …

Massive parallel sequencing applied to the molecular autopsy in sudden cardiac death in the young

M Brion, B Sobrino, M Martinez, A Blanco-Verea… - Forensic Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sudden cardiac death in the young is a very traumatic event that occurs often in apparently
healthy individuals without an explainable cause of death after a comprehensive medico …

[HTML][HTML] Change point analysis for detecting vaccine safety signals

SH You, EJ Jang, MS Kim, MT Lee, YJ Kang, JE Lee… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is important to detect signals of abrupt changes in adverse event reporting in order to
notice public safety concerns and take prompt action, especially for vaccines under national …

[HTML][HTML] PheSeq, a Bayesian deep learning model to enhance and interpret the gene-disease association studies

X Yao, S Ouyang, Y Lian, Q Peng, X Zhou, F Huang… - Genome Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Despite the abundance of genotype-phenotype association studies, the resulting
association outcomes often lack robustness and interpretations. To address these …

Enhancing the Predictive Power of Mutations in the C-Terminus of the KCNQ1-Encoded Kv7.1 Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel

JD Kapplinger, AS Tseng, BA Salisbury… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Despite the overrepresentation of Kv7. 1 mutations among patients with a robust diagnosis
of long QT syndrome (LQTS), a background rate of innocuous Kv7. 1 missense variants …

[HTML][HTML] Novel gene-specific Bayesian Gaussian mixture model to predict the missense variants pathogenicity of Sanfilippo syndrome

EEA Mohammed, AG Fayez, NM Abdelfattah… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
MPS III is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused mainly by missense
variants in the NAGLU, GNS, HGSNAT, and SGSH genes. The pathogenicity interpretation …

Designing expanded carrier screening panels: results of a qualitative study with European geneticists

D Chokoshvili, S Janssens, D Vears… - Personalized medicine, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: To explore the views of clinical and molecular geneticists on the inclusion of disorders
and specific pathogenic mutations into expanded carrier screening (ECS) tests for …