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ArticleHuman mutation2022

Utilizing ClinGen gene-disease validity and dosage sensitivity curations to inform variant classification.

Courtney Thaxton, Molly E Good, Marina T DiStefano, Xi Luo, Erica F Andersen, Erik Thorland, Jonathan Berg, Christa Lese Martin, Heidi L Rehm, Erin R Riggs and 2 more

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Article in Human mutation, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  18. Genome-wide association testing beyond SNPs.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2025
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  20. The Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen): Advancing genomic knowledge through global curation.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Courtney ThaxtonDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Molly E GoodAutism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Marina T DiStefanoPrecision Health Program, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Xi LuoDepartment of Pediatric/Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Erica F AndersenDepartment of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Erik ThorlandGenomics Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Jonathan BergDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Christa Lese MartinAutism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Heidi L RehmBroad Center for Mendelian Genomics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6025-0015
Erin R RiggsAutism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6647-5493
ClinGen Gene Curation Working Group
ClinGen Dosage Sensitivity Working Group

Funding

The Clinical Genome Resource – Advancing genomic medicine through biocuration and expert assessment of genes and variants at scaleU24HG009650 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JONATHAN S BERG, Jessica Ezzell Hunter · 2021 to 2026
$30.0M
Resource ProjectU41HG006834 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI REHM, HEIDI L · 2013 to 2020
$26.9M
ClinGen AI Data Delivery SupplementU24HG006834 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Marina DiStefano, CHRISTA LESE MARTIN · 2021 to 2026
$26.7M
The Future of PharmGKB Funding Under NHGRIU41HG009649 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BUSTAMANTE, CARLOS DANIEL · 2017 to 2020
$13.4M
The Clinical Genome Resource - Expert Curation and EHR IntegrationU41HG009650 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BERG, JONATHAN S, GODDARD, KATRINA A. · 2017 to 2020
$13.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG006834NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG009650NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG006834NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG009649NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG009650
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding whether there is enough evidence to implicate a gene's role in a given disease, as well as the mechanisms by which variants in this gene might cause this disease, is essential to determine clinical relevance. The National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) has developed evaluation frameworks to assess both the strength of evidence supporting a relationship between a gene and disease (gene-disease validity), and whether loss (haploinsufficiency) or gain (triplosensitivity) of individual genes or genomic regions is a mechanism for disease (dosage sensitivity). ClinGen actively applies these frameworks across multiple disease domains, and makes this information publicly available via its website (https://www.clinicalgenome.org/) for use in multiple applications, including clinical variant classification. Here, we describe how the results of these curation processes can be utilized to inform the appropriate application of pathogenicity criteria for both sequence and copy number variants, as well as to guide test development and inform genomic filtering pipelines.

Indexed as

Genetic VariationGenome, HumanDNA Copy Number VariationsGenetic TestingGenomicsHumansdosage sensitivitygene-disease validitygene panelsgenetic testingvariant interpretationvariant pathogenicity

Identifiers

PMID34694049
PMCPMC9035475

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