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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2024

The expanding diagnostic toolbox for rare genetic diseases.

Kristin D Kernohan, Kym M Boycott

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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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

63 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Kristin D KernohanCHEO Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-8265-2820
Kym M BoycottCHEO Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. kboycott@cheo.on.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4186-8052

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genomic technologies, such as targeted, exome and short-read genome sequencing approaches, have revolutionized the care of patients with rare genetic diseases. However, more than half of patients remain without a diagnosis. Emerging approaches from research-based settings such as long-read genome sequencing and optical genome mapping hold promise for improving the identification of disease-causal genetic variants. In addition, new omic technologies that measure the transcriptome, epigenome, proteome or metabolome are showing great potential for variant interpretation. As genetic testing options rapidly expand, the clinical community needs to be mindful of their individual strengths and limitations, as well as remaining challenges, to select the appropriate diagnostic test, correctly interpret results and drive innovation to address insufficiencies. If used effectively - through truly integrative multi-omics approaches and data sharing - the resulting large quantities of data from these established and emerging technologies will greatly improve the interpretative power of genetic and genomic diagnostics for rare diseases.

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Genetic TestingGenomicsRare DiseasesGenetic Diseases, InbornHumans

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