The expanding diagnostic toolbox for rare genetic diseases

KD Kernohan, KM Boycott - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Genomic technologies, such as targeted, exome and short-read genome sequencing
approaches, have revolutionized the care of patients with rare genetic diseases. However …

Care4Rare Canada: Outcomes from a decade of network science for rare disease gene discovery

KM Boycott, T Hartley, KD Kernohan, DA Dyment… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
The past decade has witnessed a rapid evolution in rare disease (RD) research, fueled by
the availability of genome-wide (exome and genome) sequencing. In 2011, as this …

Integrated multi-omics for rapid rare disease diagnosis on a national scale

S Lunke, SE Bouffler, CV Patel, SA Sandaradura… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Critically ill infants and children with rare diseases need equitable access to rapid and
accurate diagnosis to direct clinical management. Over 2 years, the Acute Care Genomics …

seqr: A web‐based analysis and collaboration tool for rare disease genomics

LS Pais, H Snow, B Weisburd, S Zhang… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exome and genome sequencing have become the tools of choice for rare disease
diagnosis, leading to large amounts of data available for analyses. To identify causal …

Seven years since the launch of the Matchmaker Exchange: The evolution of genomic matchmaking

KM Boycott, DR Azzariti, A Hamosh… - Human mutation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Matchmaker Exchange (MME) was launched in 2015 to provide a robust
mechanism to discover novel disease‐gene relationships. It operates as a federated …

GPAD: a natural language processing-based application to extract the gene-disease association discovery information from OMIM

KMTH Rahit, V Avramovic, JX Chong… - BMC …, 2024 - Springer
Background Thousands of genes have been associated with different Mendelian conditions.
One of the valuable sources to track these gene-disease associations (GDAs) is the Online …

PhenomeCentral: 7 years of rare disease matchmaking

M Osmond, T Hartley, B Johnstone, S Andjic… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A major challenge in validating genetic causes for patients with rare diseases (RDs) is the
difficulty in identifying other RD patients with overlapping phenotypes and variants in the …

International Undiagnosed Diseases Programs (UDPs): components and outcomes

E Curic, L Ewans, R Pysar, F Taylan, LD Botto… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Over the last 15 years, Undiagnosed Diseases Programs have emerged to address the
significant number of individuals with suspected but undiagnosed rare genetic diseases …

Considerations for reporting variants in novel candidate genes identified during clinical genomic testing

JX Chong, SI Berger, S Baxter, E Smith, C Xiao… - Genetics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the first novel gene discovery for a Mendelian condition was made via exome
sequencing, the rapid increase in the number of genes known to underlie Mendelian …

Bridging clinical care and research in Ontario, Canada: Maximizing diagnoses from reanalysis of clinical exome sequencing data

T Hartley, É Soubry, M Acker, M Osmond… - Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the utility of clinical and research processes in the reanalysis of publicly‐
funded clinical exome sequencing data in Ontario, Canada. In partnership with eight sites …