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Observational studyIndian journal of pediatrics2025

Clinical Utility of Proband Only Clinical Exome Sequencing in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Karthika Ajit Valaparambil, Alfiya Fasaludeen, Lakshmi Priya, Ramshekhar N Menon, Ramesh Menon, Soumya Sundaram

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Observational study in Indian journal of pediatrics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Karthika Ajit ValaparambilDepartment of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, Kerala, India.
Alfiya FasaludeenDepartment of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, Kerala, India.
Lakshmi PriyaDepartment of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, Kerala, India.
Ramshekhar N MenonPediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, Kerala, India.
Ramesh MenonDepartment of Bioinformatics, MedGenome Labs, Bangalore, India.
Soumya SundaramPediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011, Kerala, India. ssdr.soumya@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7351-0878
Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosomal microarray is recommended as the first line of investigation in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). However, advances in next-generation sequencing have unraveled more than 900 genes associated with NDDs, thus improving the genetic diagnosis. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore the utility of clinical exome sequencing (CES) in NDDs from a tertiary care centre in India. A retrospective observational analysis of 78 children with NDDs for whom CES was performed between 2017 and 2021 was conducted. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) criteria were used to classify the variants. The mean age was 5.8 ± 3.6 y, and 42 (53%) were male. Pathogenic, likely pathogenic, and variants of uncertain significance (VUS) were observed in 22 (28.2%), 10 (12.8%), and 26 (33.3%) patients, respectively, which included five copy number variants. The diagnostic yield for pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants in NDDs by CES was 41%, which was reasonably high.

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Exome SequencingGenetic TestingNeurodevelopmental DisordersChildChild, PreschoolDNA Copy Number VariationsFemaleHumansIndiaInfantMaleRetrospective StudiesAutism spectrum disorderClinical exome sequencingDiagnostic yieldIntellectual disabilityNeurodevelopmental disordersNext generation sequencing

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