Background: Next-generation sequencing has had a significant impact on genetic disease diagnosis, but the interpretation of the vast amount of genomic data it generates can be challenging. To address this, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology have established guidelines for standardized variant interpretation. In this manuscript, we present the updated Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Standards for Constitutional Sequence Variants Classification, incorporating modifications from leading genetics societies and the ClinGen initiative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIdentifying DNA markers such as Short Tandem Repeats (STR) can be used to investigate genetic diversity based on levels of heterozygosity within and between populations. Allele frequencies and forensic data for STRs were obtained from a sample of 384 unrelated individuals living in Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Thus, the present study aimed to identify the allele frequency distribution, in addition to the forensic and genetic data, of 25 STR loci in the population of Bahia.
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August 2021
The CRISPR-Cas are adaptive immune systems found in archaea and bacteria, responsible for providing sequence-specific resistance against foreign DNA. Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa may carry CRISPR/Cas system types I-F, I-E and/or I-C; however, several aspects related to the epidemiology and functionality of these systems have not yet been revealed. Here, we report 13 genomes of clinical strains of P.
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