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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2021

Genome sequencing as a diagnostic test.

Gregory Costain, Ronald D Cohn, Stephen W Scherer, Christian R Marshall

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  8. Sustainability in translational genomics research with undiagnosed patients: What is it, why do we need it, and how do we do it?Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025
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  9. S1- Leitlinie "Molekulargenetische Diagnostik mit Hochdurchsatz-Sequenzierverfahren (Massives Paralleles Sequenzieren, MPS)".Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2025
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  18. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023
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  19. Ensuring timely genetic diagnosis in adults.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gregory CostainDivision of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics (Costain, Cohn), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Paediatrics (Costain, Cohn), University of Toronto; Genetics and Genome Biology (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), SickKids Research Institute; Department of Molecular Genetics (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), University of Toronto; The Centre for Applied Genomics (Scherer, Marshall), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Marshall), University of Toronto; Genome Diagnostics (Marshall), Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont. gregory.costain@sickkids.ca.
Ronald D CohnDivision of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics (Costain, Cohn), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Paediatrics (Costain, Cohn), University of Toronto; Genetics and Genome Biology (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), SickKids Research Institute; Department of Molecular Genetics (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), University of Toronto; The Centre for Applied Genomics (Scherer, Marshall), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Marshall), University of Toronto; Genome Diagnostics (Marshall), Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.
Stephen W SchererDivision of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics (Costain, Cohn), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Paediatrics (Costain, Cohn), University of Toronto; Genetics and Genome Biology (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), SickKids Research Institute; Department of Molecular Genetics (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), University of Toronto; The Centre for Applied Genomics (Scherer, Marshall), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Marshall), University of Toronto; Genome Diagnostics (Marshall), Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.
Christian R MarshallDivision of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics (Costain, Cohn), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Paediatrics (Costain, Cohn), University of Toronto; Genetics and Genome Biology (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), SickKids Research Institute; Department of Molecular Genetics (Costain, Cohn, Scherer), University of Toronto; The Centre for Applied Genomics (Scherer, Marshall), The Hospital for Sick Children; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Marshall), University of Toronto; Genome Diagnostics (Marshall), Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Genome, HumanWhole Genome SequencingDiagnostic Tests, RoutineExome SequencingGenetic TestingHumans

Identifiers

PMID34697096
PMCPMC8562981

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