Intellectual disability genomics: current state, pitfalls and future challenges

N Maia, MJ Nabais Sá, M Melo-Pires, APM de Brouwer… - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
Intellectual disability (ID) can be caused by non-genetic and genetic factors, the latter being
responsible for more than 1700 ID-related disorders. The broad ID phenotypic and genetic …

New diagnostic approaches for undiagnosed rare genetic diseases

T Hartley, G Lemire, KD Kernohan… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Accurate diagnosis is the cornerstone of medicine; it is essential for informed care and
promoting patient and family well-being. However, families with a rare genetic disease …

Recommendations for reporting of secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing, 2021 update: a policy statement of the American College of Medical …

DT Miller, K Lee, AS Gordon, LM Amendola… - Genetics in …, 2021 - nature.com
Disclaimer: This statement is designed primarily as an educational resource for medical
geneticists and other clinicians to help them provide quality medical services. Adherence to …

Next-generation phenotyping integrated in a national framework for patients with ultrarare disorders improves genetic diagnostics and yields new molecular findings

A Schmidt, M Danyel, K Grundmann, T Brunet… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Individuals with ultrarare disorders pose a structural challenge for healthcare systems since
expert clinical knowledge is required to establish diagnoses. In TRANSLATE NAMSE, a 3 …

Personalized recurrence risk assessment following the birth of a child with a pathogenic de novo mutation

M Bernkopf, UB Abdullah, SJ Bush, KA Wood… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Following the diagnosis of a paediatric disorder caused by an apparently de novo mutation,
a recurrence risk of 1–2% is frequently quoted due to the possibility of parental germline …

Trio exome sequencing is highly relevant in prenatal diagnostics

H Gabriel, D Korinth, M Ritthaler, B Schulte… - Prenatal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective About 3% of newborns show malformations, with about 20% of the affected having
genetic causes. Clarification of genetic diseases in postnatal diagnostics was significantly …

VarFish: comprehensive DNA variant analysis for diagnostics and research

M Holtgrewe, O Stolpe, M Nieminen… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
VarFish is a user-friendly web application for the quality control, filtering, prioritization,
analysis, and user-based annotation of DNA variant data with a focus on rare disease …

Voltage-Gated Ca2+-Channel α1-Subunit de novo Missense Mutations: Gain or Loss of Function – Implications for Potential Therapies

J Striessnig - Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review summarizes our current knowledge of human disease-relevant genetic variants
within the family of voltage gated Ca2+ channels. Ca2+ channelopathies cover a wide …

Low-level parental somatic mosaic SNVs in exomes from a large cohort of trios with diverse suspected Mendelian conditions

T Gambin, Q Liu, JA Karolak, CM Grochowski… - Genetics in …, 2020 - nature.com
Purpose The goal of this study was to assess the scale of low-level parental mosaicism in
exome sequencing (ES) databases. Methods We analyzed approximately 2000 family trio …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of paternal age on new mutations and disease in the next generation

KA Wood, A Goriely - Fertility and Sterility, 2022 - Elsevier
Advanced paternal age is associated with an increased risk of fathering children with
genetic disorders and other adverse reproductive consequences. However, the mechanisms …