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Breast Cancer Association Consortium
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RNU4-2 monoallelic variants as a leading cause of syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder, including in patients with parental consanguinity
We analysed rare variants in the non-coding RNU4-2 gene as a potential cause of neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) and intellectual disability (ID) in a large cohort of individuals enriched for ...
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Syndromes and constitutional chromosomal abnormalities associated with Wilms tumour
Wilms tumour has been reported in association with over 50 different clinical conditions and several abnormal constitutional karyotypes. Conclusive evidence of an increased risk of Wilms tumour exists ...
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Opportunistic genetic screening increases the diagnostic yield and is medically valuable for care of patients and their relatives with hereditary cancer
Background Multigene panel testing by next-generation sequencing (MGP-NGS) enables the detection of germline pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants (PVs/LPVs) in genes beyond those associated with a ...
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Novel founder variant in the S-antigen visual arrestin gene SAG is the most prevalent cause of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa in Singaporean Chinese ...
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Clinical and psychological implications of secondary and incidental findings in cancer susceptibility genes after exome sequencing in patients with rare disorders
Background/Objectives Exome sequencing may identify pathogenic variants unrelated with the purpose of the analysis. We investigated the frequency of secondary and incidental findings (SF/IF) in cancer ...
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Dysfunction of VIPR2 leads to myopia in humans and mice
2 The State Key Laboratory of Optometry, Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Wenzhou, China Background Myopia is the leading cause of refractive errors. As its pathogenesis is poorly understood, we ...
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Dilated cardiomyopathy caused by truncating titin variants: long-term outcomes, arrhythmias, response to treatment and sex differences
Correspondence to Dr Christoffer Rasmus Vissing, The Capital Region’s Unit for Inherited Cardiac Diseases, Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark; christoffervi{at ...
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CNVs affecting cancer predisposing genes (CPGs) detected as incidental findings in routine germline diagnostic chromosomal microarray (CMA) testing
2 West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Background Identification of CNVs through chromosomal microarray (CMA) testing is the ...
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Uncovering the burden of hidden ciliopathies in the 100 000 Genomes Project: a reverse phenotyping approach
Background The 100 000 Genomes Project (100K) recruited National Health Service patients with eligible rare diseases and cancer between 2016 and 2018. PanelApp virtual gene panels were applied to ...
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Practice evaluation of biobank ethics and governance: current needs and future perspectives
Correspondence to Holger Langhof, QUEST-Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, Charité – University Medicine, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin 10178, Germany; ...