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ArticleMolecular genetics & genomic medicine2021

Contribution of uniparental disomy in a clinical trio exome cohort of 2675 patients.

Lei Wang, Pengfei Liu, Weimin Bi, Teresa Sim, Xia Wang, Magdalene Walkiewicz, Magalie Sophie Leduc, Linyan Meng, Fan Xia, Christine M Eng and 3 more

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Article in Molecular genetics & genomic medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. UPDhmm: detecting uniparental disomy from NGS trio data.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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13 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Lei WangBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8105-9896
Pengfei LiuBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.
Weimin BiBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.
Teresa SimGeneDx, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Xia WangAiLife Diagnostics, Houston, Texas, USA.
Magdalene WalkiewiczNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Magalie Sophie LeducGenomics PLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Linyan MengBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.
Fan XiaBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.
Christine M EngBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.
Yaping YangAiLife Diagnostics, Houston, Texas, USA.
Bo YuanBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7278-5116
Hongzheng DaiBaylor Genetics Laboratory, Houston, Texas, USA.
Baylor College of Medicine · USDiagnostics Research Group · USBaylor Genetics · USID Genomics (United States) · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUniparental disomy (UPD) is the inheritance of two homologous chromosomes from the same parent. UPD may result in clinical phenotypes when occurring on chromosomes with specific imprinting pattern, when leading to homozygosity of a deleterious recessive allele inherited from one carrier parent, or when associated with a mosaic aneuploidy. Due to the importance of UPD in genetic disease etiology, UPD analysis has started to be implemented in the context of exome sequencing (ES) or genome sequencing.

methodsWe developed an in-house algorithm TRIPS (Trio Parentage/UPD Studies) to identify UPD events in trio ES cases. This method identifies regions with uniparental inheritance by utilizing the trio genotyping data obtained from the concurrent SNP array to delineate the parental origin of the SNPs in the proband.

resultsWe identified 16 UPD events from 2675 ES trios. Among those, four events led to imprinting disorders, seven unmasked a pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant in a recessive disease gene, and two were consistent with a mosaic genome wide paternal UPD pattern. Twelve of these UPD events directly contributed to the molecular diagnosis of the patients.

conclusionOur study demonstrated the contribution of UPD to the molecular diagnosis in one clinical ES cohort, thus UPD analysis should be incorporated into routine clinical ES interpretation.

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Chromosome DisordersExome SequencingHumansPedigreeUniparental DisomyalgorithmSNP arraytrio exome sequencinguniparental disomy

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