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Trial reportScientific reports2021

Detection of single nucleotide and copy number variants in the Fabry disease-associated GLA gene using nanopore sequencing.

Albina Nowak, Omer Murik, Tzvia Mann, David A Zeevi, Gheona Altarescu

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A New Class of Pathogenic Non-Coding Variants in GLA.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  7. [Clinical diagnostic techniques for rare genetic diseases in children: current status, advances, and thoughts].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2023
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  8. Calling and Phasing of Single-Nucleotide and Structural Variants of theInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  9. Nanopore sequencing of PCR products enables multicopy gene family reconstruction.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Albina Nowak *Department of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Albina.Nowak@usz.ch.
Omer Murik *Medical Genetics Institute and Translational Genomics Lab, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Tzvia MannMedical Genetics Institute and Translational Genomics Lab, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
David A ZeeviMedical Genetics Institute and Translational Genomics Lab, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Gheona AltarescuMedical Genetics Institute and Translational Genomics Lab, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. gheona@szmc.org.il.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than 900 variants have been described in the GLA gene. Some intronic variants and copy number variants in GLA can cause Fabry disease but will not be detected by classical Sanger sequence. We aimed to design and validate a method for sequencing the GLA gene using long-read Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology. Twelve Fabry patients were blindly analyzed, both by conventional Sanger sequence and by long-read sequencing of a 13 kb PCR amplicon. We used minimap2 to align the long-read data and Nanopolish and Sniffles to call variants. All the variants detected by Sanger (including a deep intronic variant) were also detected by long-read sequencing. One patient had a deletion that was not detected by Sanger sequencing but was detected by the new technology. Our long-read sequencing-based method was able to detect missense variants and an exonic deletion, with the added advantage of intronic analysis. It can be used as an efficient and cost-effective tool for screening and diagnosing Fabry disease.

Indexed as

Base SequenceMutation, MissensePolymorphism, Single NucleotideSequence DeletionAdultalpha-GalactosidaseFabry DiseaseHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMaleMiddle Agedalpha-GalactosidaseGLA protein, human

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PMID34785703
PMCPMC8595663

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