A guide for the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed disease: beyond the exome

S Marwaha, JW Knowles, EA Ashley - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Rare diseases affect 30 million people in the USA and more than 300–400 million
worldwide, often causing chronic illness, disability, and premature death. Traditional …

Long-read human genome sequencing and its applications

GA Logsdon, MR Vollger, EE Eichler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, long-read, single-molecule DNA sequencing technologies have
emerged as powerful players in genomics. With the ability to generate reads tens to …

Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2

M Smolka, LF Paulin, CM Grochowski, DW Horner… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Calling structural variations (SVs) is technically challenging, but using long reads remains
the most accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. Here we present Sniffles2 …

Towards population-scale long-read sequencing

W De Coster, MH Weissensteiner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing technologies have now reached a level of accuracy and yield that
allows their application to variant detection at a scale of tens to thousands of samples …

Structural variant calling: the long and the short of it

M Mahmoud, N Gobet, DI Cruz-Dávalos, N Mounier… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Recent research into structural variants (SVs) has established their importance to medicine
and molecular biology, elucidating their role in various diseases, regulation of gene …

Most large structural variants in cancer genomes can be detected without long reads

ZN Choo, JM Behr, A Deshpande, K Hadi, X Yao… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Short-read sequencing is the workhorse of cancer genomics yet is thought to miss many
structural variants (SVs), particularly large chromosomal alterations. To characterize missing …

Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome

AM Wenger, P Peluso, WJ Rowell, PC Chang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The DNA sequencing technologies in use today produce either highly accurate short reads
or less-accurate long reads. We report the optimization of circular consensus sequencing …

Structural variation in the sequencing era

SS Ho, AE Urban, RE Mills - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Identifying structural variation (SV) is essential for genome interpretation but has been
historically difficult due to limitations inherent to available genome technologies. Detection …

Clinical application of advanced multi-omics tumor profiling: Shaping precision oncology of the future

D Akhoundova, MA Rubin - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Next-generation DNA sequencing technology has dramatically advanced clinical oncology
through the identification of therapeutic targets and molecular biomarkers, leading to the …

Variant calling and benchmarking in an era of complete human genome sequences

ND Olson, J Wagner, N Dwarshuis, KH Miga… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variant calling from DNA sequencing has enabled understanding of germline
variation in hundreds of thousands of humans. Sequencing technologies and variant-calling …