The Impact of Rapid Exome Sequencing on Medical Management of Critically Ill Children.

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of rapid exome sequencing (rES) in critically ill children with likely genetic disease using a standardized process at a single institution. To provide evidence that rES with should become standard of care for this patient population.

Study Design: We implemented a process to provide clinical-grade rES to eligible children at a single institution.

Heterozygous missense variants cause ataxia, cognitive decline, and STUB1 mislocalization.

Objective: To identify the genetic cause of autosomal dominant ataxia complicated by behavioral abnormalities, cognitive decline, and autism in 2 families and to characterize brain neuropathologic signatures of dominant -related ataxia and investigate the effects of pathogenic variants on localization.

Methods: Clinical and research-based exome sequencing was used to identify the causative variants for autosomal dominant ataxia in 2 families. Gross and microscopic neuropathologic evaluations were performed on the brains of 4 affected individuals in these families.

Glycogen storage disease type IV: dilated cardiomyopathy as the isolated initial presentation in an adult patient.

Glycogen storage disease type IV (GSD IV, Andersen disease) is a rare autosomal recessive condition. The childhood neuromuscular subtype of GSD IV is characterised by a progressive skeletal myopathy with cardiomyopathy also reported in some individuals. We report a case of a 19-year-old man who presented with severe non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM) necessitating heart transplantation, with biopsy showing aggregations of polyglucosan bodies in cardiac myocytes.