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ArticlePloS one2016

Retinal Diseases Caused by Mutations in Genes Not Specifically Associated with the Clinical Diagnosis.

Xia Wang, Yanming Feng, Jianli Li, Wei Zhang, Jing Wang, Richard A Lewis, Lee-Jun Wong

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xia WangDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7750-1167
Yanming FengBaylor Genetics, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Jianli LiBaylor Genetics, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Wei ZhangDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Jing WangDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Richard A LewisDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Lee-Jun WongDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Baylor College of Medicine · USBaylor Genetics · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeWhen seeking a confirmed molecular diagnosis in the research setting, patients with one descriptive diagnosis of retinal disease could carry pathogenic variants in genes not specifically associated with that description. However, this event has not been evaluated systematically in clinical diagnostic laboratories that validate fully all target genes to minimize false negatives/positives.

methodsWe performed targeted next-generation sequencing analysis on 207 ocular disease-related genes for 42 patients whose DNA had been tested negative for disease-specific panels of genes known to be associated with retinitis pigmentosa, Leber congenital amaurosis, or exudative vitreoretinopathy.

resultsPathogenic variants, including single nucleotide variations and copy number variations, were identified in 9 patients, including 6 with variants in syndromic retinal disease genes and 3 whose molecular diagnosis could not be distinguished easily from their submitted clinical diagnosis, accounting for 21% (9/42) of the unsolved cases.

conclusionOur study underscores the clinical and genetic heterogeneity of retinal disorders and provides valuable reference to estimate the fraction of clinical samples whose retinal disorders could be explained by genes not specifically associated with the corresponding clinical diagnosis. Our data suggest that sequencing a larger set of retinal disorder related genes can increase the molecular diagnostic yield, especially for clinically hard-to-distinguish cases.

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MutationAdolescentAdultChildDNA Copy Number VariationsDNA Mutational AnalysisFemaleGene DeletionHeterozygoteHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansInfantRetinal Diseases

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