Incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity: from clinical studies to population cohorts

R Kingdom, CF Wright - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The same genetic variant found in different individuals can cause a range of diverse
phenotypes, from no discernible clinical phenotype to severe disease, even among related …

Scalable functional assays for the interpretation of human genetic variation

D Tabet, V Parikh, P Mali, FP Roth… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Scalable sequence–function studies have enabled the systematic analysis and cataloging of
hundreds of thousands of coding and noncoding genetic variants in the human genome …

CADD v1. 7: using protein language models, regulatory CNNs and other nucleotide-level scores to improve genome-wide variant predictions

M Schubach, T Maass, L Nazaretyan… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine Learning-based scoring and classification of genetic variants aids the
assessment of clinical findings and is employed to prioritize variants in diverse genetic …

De novo variants in the RNU4-2 snRNA cause a frequent neurodevelopmental syndrome

Y Chen, R Dawes, HC Kim, A Ljungdahl, SL Stenton… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Around 60% of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) remain undiagnosed
after comprehensive genetic testing, primarily of protein-coding genes. Large genome …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis of the diagnostic and clinical utility of exome and genome sequencing in pediatric and adult patients with rare diseases across diverse …

CCY Chung, SPY Hue, NYT Ng, PHL Doong… - Genetics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose This meta-analysis aims to compare the diagnostic and clinical utility of exome
sequencing (ES) vs genome sequencing (GS) in pediatric and adult patients with rare …

[HTML][HTML] Optical genome mapping and revisiting short-read genome sequencing data reveal previously overlooked structural variants disrupting retinal disease …

SE de Bruijn, K Rodenburg, J Corominas… - Genetics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Structural variants (SVs) play an important role in inherited retinal
diseases (IRD). Although the identification of SVs significantly improved upon the availability …

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 …

Atypical splicing variants in PKD1 explain most undiagnosed typical familial ADPKD

Y Hort, P Sullivan, L Wedd, L Fowles… - npj Genomic …, 2023 - nature.com
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common monogenic
cause of kidney failure and is primarily associated with PKD1 or PKD2. Approximately 10 …

Rare variants in long non-coding RNAs are associated with blood lipid levels in the TOPMed whole-genome sequencing study

Y Wang, MS Selvaraj, X Li, Z Li, JA Holdcraft… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known to perform important regulatory functions in
lipid metabolism. Large-scale whole-genome sequencing (WGS) studies and new statistical …

VarCards2: an integrated genetic and clinical database for ACMG-AMP variant-interpretation guidelines in the human whole genome

Z Wang, G Zhao, Z Zhu, Y Wang, X Xiang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
VarCards, an online database, combines comprehensive variant-and gene-level annotation
data to streamline genetic counselling for coding variants. Recognising the increasing …