Precision medicine in rare diseases: What is next?

B Tesi, C Boileau, KM Boycott… - Journal of Internal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular diagnostics is a cornerstone of modern precision medicine, broadly understood
as tailoring an individual's treatment, follow‐up, and care based on molecular data. In rare …

Integration of whole genome sequencing into a healthcare setting: high diagnostic rates across multiple clinical entities in 3219 rare disease patients

H Stranneheim, K Lagerstedt-Robinson… - Genome Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background We report the findings from 4437 individuals (3219 patients and 1218 relatives)
who have been analyzed by whole genome sequencing (WGS) at the Genomic Medicine …

Comprehensive evaluation of structural variation detection algorithms for whole genome sequencing

S Kosugi, Y Momozawa, X Liu, C Terao, M Kubo… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Structural variations (SVs) or copy number variations (CNVs) greatly
impact the functions of the genes encoded in the genome and are responsible for diverse …

Detection of somatic structural variants from short-read next-generation sequencing data

T Gong, VM Hayes, EKF Chan - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Somatic structural variants (SVs), which are variants that typically impact> 50 nucleotides,
play a significant role in cancer development and evolution but are notoriously more difficult …

Blocking genomic instability prevents acquired resistance to MAPK inhibitor therapy in melanoma

P Dharanipragada, X Zhang, S Liu, SH Lomeli, A Hong… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Blocking cancer genomic instability may prevent tumor diversification and escape from
therapies. We show that, after MAPK inhibitor (MAPKi) therapy in patients and mice bearing …

SweGen: a whole-genome data resource of genetic variability in a cross-section of the Swedish population

A Ameur, J Dahlberg, P Olason, F Vezzi… - European Journal of …, 2017 - nature.com
Here we describe the SweGen data set, a comprehensive map of genetic variation in the
Swedish population. These data represent a basic resource for clinical genetics laboratories …

[HTML][HTML] Sarek: A portable workflow for whole-genome sequencing analysis of germline and somatic variants

M Garcia, S Juhos, M Larsson, PI Olason… - …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a fundamental technology for research to advance
precision medicine, but the limited availability of portable and user-friendly workflows for …

Multi-organ landscape of therapy-resistant melanoma

S Liu, P Dharanipragada, SH Lomeli, Y Wang… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Metastasis and failure of present-day therapies represent the most common causes of
mortality in patients with cutaneous melanoma. To identify the underlying genetic and …

Disruption of the TP53 locus in osteosarcoma leads to TP53 promoter gene fusions and restoration of parts of the TP53 signalling pathway

KH Saba, V Difilippo, M Kovac… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. This gene shows not only loss‐
of‐function mutations but also recurrent missense mutations with gain‐of‐function activity …

From cytogenetics to cytogenomics: whole-genome sequencing as a first-line test comprehensively captures the diverse spectrum of disease-causing genetic variation …

A Lindstrand, J Eisfeldt, M Pettersson, CMB Carvalho… - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background Since different types of genetic variants, from single nucleotide variants (SNVs)
to large chromosomal rearrangements, underlie intellectual disability, we evaluated the use …