European heart rhythm association (EHRA)/heart rhythm society (HRS)/Asia pacific heart rhythm society (APHRS)/latin American heart rhythm society (LAHRS) expert …

AAM Wilde, C Semsarian, MF Márquez, AS Shamloo… - Europace, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Purpose Genetic testing has advanced significantly since the publication of the 2011
HRS/EHRA Expert Consensus Statement on the State of Genetic Testing for the …

Challenges and opportunities associated with rare-variant pharmacogenomics

Y Zhou, R Tremmel, E Schaeffeler, M Schwab… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have resulted in the identification of
tens of thousands of rare pharmacogenetic variations with unknown functional effects …

Prognostic value of nonischemic ringlike left ventricular scar in patients with apparently idiopathic nonsustained ventricular arrhythmias

D Muser, G Nucifora, D Muser, G Nucifora, M Pieroni… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Left ventricular (LV) scar on late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac
magnetic resonance has been correlated with life-threatening arrhythmic events in patients …

Improving diagnostics of rare genetic diseases with NGS approaches

M Vinkšel, K Writzl, A Maver, B Peterlin - Journal of Community Genetics, 2021 - Springer
According to a rough estimate, one in fifteen people worldwide is affected by a rare disease.
Rare diseases are therefore common in clinical practice; however, timely diagnosis of rare …

Beyond gene-disease validity: capturing structured data on inheritance, allelic requirement, disease-relevant variant classes, and disease mechanism for inherited …

KS Josephs, AM Roberts, P Theotokis, R Walsh… - Genome medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background As the availability of genomic testing grows, variant interpretation will
increasingly be performed by genomic generalists, rather than domain-specific experts …

A massively parallel assay accurately discriminates between functionally normal and abnormal variants in a hotspot domain of KCNH2

CA Ng, R Ullah, J Farr, AP Hill, KA Kozek… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Many genes, including KCNH2, contain" hotspot" domains associated with a high density of
variants associated with disease. This has led to the suggestion that variant location can be …

Genetic testing in Brugada syndrome: a 30-year experience

L Pannone, A Bisignani, R Osei, A Gauthey… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: A pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant can be found in 20% to 25% of
patients with Brugada syndrome (BrS) and a pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant in SCN5A …

Genetic testing in children with Brugada syndrome: results from a large prospective registry

L Pannone, A Bisignani, R Osei, A Gauthey… - Europace, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Aims A pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) variant in SCN5A is found in 20–25% of patients
with Brugada syndrome (BrS). However, the diagnostic yield and prognosis of gene panel …

Clinical impact of rare variants associated with inherited channelopathies: a 5-year update

G Sarquella-Brugada, A Fernandez-Falgueras… - Human Genetics, 2021 - Springer
A proper interpretation of the pathogenicity of rare variants is crucial before clinical
translation. Ongoing addition of new data may modify previous variant classifications; …

A calibrated functional patch-clamp assay to enhance clinical variant interpretation in KCNH2-related long QT syndrome

C Jiang, E Richardson, J Farr, AP Hill, R Ullah… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Modern sequencing technologies have revolutionized our detection of gene variants.
However, in most genes, including KCNH2, the majority of missense variants are currently …