Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: genetics, gene activation and downstream signalling with regard to recent therapeutic approaches: an update

T Schätzl, L Kaiser, HP Deigner - Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2021 - Springer
Whilst a disease-modifying treatment for Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)
does not exist currently, recent advances in complex molecular pathophysiology studies of …

Optical genome mapping enables constitutional chromosomal aberration detection

T Mantere, K Neveling, C Pebrel-Richard… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Chromosomal aberrations including structural variations (SVs) are a major cause of human
genetic diseases. Their detection in clinical routine still relies on standard cytogenetics …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and phenotypic impact of Robertsonian translocations

M Poot, R Hochstenbach - Molecular syndromology, 2021 - karger.com
Robertsonian translocations (RTs) result from fusion of 2 acrocentric chromosomes (eg, 13,
14, 15, 21, 22) and consequential losses of segments of the p arms containing 47S rDNA …

Analysis of genomic copy number variation in miscarriages during early and middle pregnancy

H Wu, Q Huang, X Zhang, Z Yu, Z Zhong - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this study was to explore the copy number variations (CNVs) associated with
miscarriage during early and middle pregnancy and provide useful genetic guidance for …

Detection of complex chromosome rearrangements using optical genome mapping

J Qu, S Li, D Yu - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
Chromosomal structural variations (SVs) are a main cause of human genetic disease.
Currently, karyotype, chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA), and fluorescent in situ …

Emerging technologies for prenatal diagnosis: The application of whole genome and RNA sequencing

P Liu, L Vossaert - Prenatal diagnosis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
DNA sequencing technologies for clinical genetic testing have been rapidly evolving in
recent years, and steadily become more important within the field of prenatal diagnostics …

Neuromuscular disorders in pregnancy

LH Weimer - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Many neuromuscular disorders preexist or occur during pregnancy. In some cases,
pregnancy unmasks a latent hereditary disorder. Most available information is based on …

Combination of trio-based whole exome sequencing and optical genome mapping reveals a cryptic balanced translocation that causes unbalanced chromosomal …

M Xie, J Xue, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, Q Yu, H Li, Q Li - Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Balanced translocation (BT) carriers can produce imbalanced gametes and
experience recurrent spontaneous abortions (RSAs) and even give birth to a child with …

Next generation cytogenetics: Genome-imaging enables comprehensive structural variant detection for 100 constitutional chromosomal aberrations in 85 samples

T Mantere, K Neveling, C Pebrel-Richard, M Benoist… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Chromosomal aberrations and structural variations are a major cause of human genetic
diseases. Their detection in clinical routine still relies on standard cytogenetics, karyotyping …

Testing for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy with optical genome mapping

P Koppikar, S Shenoy, N Guruju, M Hegde - Current Protocols, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of optical genome mapping has improved time constraints and a lack of
specificity from previous methodologies when performing genome‐wide analyses of …