Transcriptome-directed analysis for Mendelian disease diagnosis overcomes limitations of conventional genomic testing

DR Murdock, H Dai, LC Burrage… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND Transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) improves diagnostic rates in
individuals with suspected Mendelian conditions to varying degrees, primarily by directing …

Detection of aberrant splicing events in RNA-seq data using FRASER

C Mertes, IF Scheller, VA Yépez, MH Çelik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Aberrant splicing is a major cause of rare diseases. However, its prediction from genome
sequence alone remains in most cases inconclusive. Recently, RNA sequencing has proven …

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 …