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ReviewFrontiers in genetics2019

Exploring the RNA Gap for Improving Diagnostic Yield in Primary Immunodeficiencies.

Jed J Lye, Anthony Williams, Diana Baralle

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Review in Frontiers in genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jed J LyeUniversity of Southampton Medical School, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Anthony WilliamsUniversity of Southampton Medical School, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Diana BaralleUniversity of Southampton Medical School, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
University of Southampton · GB

Funding

Department of Health RP-2016-07-011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Challenges in diagnosing primary immunodeficiency are numerous and diverse, with current whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing approaches only able to reach a molecular diagnosis in 25-60% of cases. We assess these problems and discuss how RNA-focused analysis has expanded and improved in recent years and may now be utilized to gain an unparalleled insight into cellular immunology. We review how investigation into RNA biology can give information regarding the differential expression, monoallelic expression, and alternative splicing-which have important roles in immune regulation and function. We show how this information can inform bioinformatic analysis pipelines and aid in the variant filtering process, expediting the identification of causal variants-especially those affecting splicing-and enhance overall diagnostic ability. We also demonstrate the challenges, which remain in the design of this type of investigation, regarding technological limitation and biological considerations and suggest potential directions for the clinical applications.

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clinical diagnosticsprimary immunodeficiency disordersRNARNASeqRNAseq analysis

Identifiers

PMID31921280
PMCPMC6917654
OpenAlexW2996641411

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