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 …

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 …

Building pangenome graphs

E Garrison, A Guarracino, S Heumos, F Villani, Z Bao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pangenome graphs can represent all variation between multiple reference genomes, but
current approaches to build them exclude complex sequences or are based upon a single …

100,000 genomes pilot on rare-disease diagnosis in health care—preliminary report

100,000 Genomes Project Pilot … - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Abstract Background The UK 100,000 Genomes Project is in the process of investigating the
role of genome sequencing in patients with undiagnosed rare diseases after usual care and …

Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation

B Trost, B Thiruvahindrapuram, AJS Chan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fully understanding autism spectrum disorder (ASD) genetics requires whole-genome
sequencing (WGS). We present the latest release of the Autism Speaks MSSNG resource …

Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes

K Shafin, T Pesout, R Lorig-Roach, M Haukness… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
De novo assembly of a human genome using nanopore long-read sequences has been
reported, but it used more than 150,000 CPU hours and weeks of wall-clock time. To enable …

A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics

RL Collins, H Brand, KJ Karczewski, X Zhao, J Alföldi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Structural variants (SVs) rearrange large segments of DNA and can have profound
consequences in evolution and human disease,. As national biobanks, disease-association …

Optical genome map** enables constitutional chromosomal aberration detection

T Mantere, K Neveling, C Pebrel-Richard… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Chromosomal aberrations including structural variations (SVs) are a major cause of human
genetic diseases. Their detection in clinical routine still relies on standard cytogenetics …

A roadmap for understanding the evolutionary significance of structural genomic variation

C Mérot, RA Oomen, A Tigano… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Structural genomic variants (SVs) are ubiquitous and play a major role in adaptation and
speciation. Yet, comparative and population genomics have focused predominantly on gene …

A survey of algorithms for the detection of genomic structural variants from long-read sequencing data

MU Ahsan, Q Liu, JE Perdomo, L Fang, K Wang - Nature methods, 2023 - nature.com
As long-read sequencing technologies are becoming increasingly popular, a number of
methods have been developed for the discovery and analysis of structural variants (SVs) …