NGS technologies as a turning point in rare disease research, diagnosis and treatment

A Fernandez-Marmiesse, S Gouveia… - Current medicinal …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Approximately 25-50 million Americans, 30 million Europeans, and 8% of the Australian
population have a rare disease. Rare diseases are thus a common problem for clinicians …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic and environmental risk factors of acute infection-triggered encephalopathy

M Mizuguchi, A Shibata, M Kasai… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Acute encephalopathy is a constellation of syndromes in which immune response,
metabolism and neuronal excitation are affected in a variable fashion. Most of the …

Yield of peripheral sodium channels gene screening in pure small fibre neuropathy

I Eijkenboom, M Sopacua, JGJ Hoeijmakers… - Journal of Neurology …, 2019 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Neuropathic pain is common in peripheral neuropathy. Recent genetic studies
have linked pathogenic voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) variants to human pain …

[HTML][HTML] The diagnostic yield, candidate genes, and pitfalls for a genetic study of intellectual disability in 118 middle eastern families

G Al-Kasbi, F Al-Murshedi, A Al-Kindi, N Al-Hashimi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Global Developmental Delay/Intellectual disability (ID) is the term used to describe
various disorders caused by abnormal brain development and characterized by impairments …

[HTML][HTML] A recurrent de novo PACS2 heterozygous missense variant causes neonatal-onset developmental epileptic encephalopathy, facial dysmorphism, and …

HE Olson, N Jean-Marçais, E Yang, D Heron… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) represent a large clinical and
genetic heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental diseases. The identification of …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic profiling of sodium channels in diabetic painful and painless and idiopathic painful and painless neuropathies

R Almomani, M Sopacua, M Marchi… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Neuropathic pain is a frequent feature of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and small
fiber neuropathy (SFN). Resolving the genetic architecture of these painful neuropathies will …

Epilepsies of presumed genetic etiology show enrichment of rare variants that occur in the general population

L Bundalian, YY Su, S Chen, A Velluva… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Previous studies suggested that severe epilepsies, eg, developmental and epileptic
encephalopathies (DEEs), are mainly caused by ultra-rare de novo genetic variants. For …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of Nav1.8 as a therapeutic target for Pitt Hopkins Syndrome

K Martinowich, D Das, SR Sripathy, Y Mai… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS) is a rare syndromic form of autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) caused by autosomal dominant mutations in the Transcription Factor 4 (TCF4) gene …

Muscle and brain sodium channelopathies: genetic causes, clinical phenotypes, and management approaches

E Matthews, S Balestrini, SM Sisodiya… - The Lancet Child & …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Voltage-gated sodium channels are essential for excitability of skeletal muscle fibres and
neurons. An increasing number of disabling or fatal paediatric neurological disorders linked …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneity in biomarkers, mitogenome and genetic disorders of the Arab population with special emphasis on large-scale whole-exome sequencing

JF Borgio - Archives of Medical Science: AMS, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
More than 25 million DNA variations have been discovered as novel including major alleles
from the Arab population. Exome studies on the Saudi genome discovered> 3000 novel …