While variants cause many Mendelian disorders, their detection currently requires sequencing of the proband and both biological parents. This is not feasible when only one parent is available, a limitation for millions of families. We developed , which identifies variants from single parent-proband duos using long-read sequencing followed by haplotype reconstruction and detection of identical-by-descent haplotype blocks. We sequenced 40 trios and applied to each of the 80 duos constructed by masking one parent, classifying over 20 million variants. We evaluated 's performance against classifications obtained using the full trios (which included over 1,900 variants), demonstrating very high precision and low error rate, and perfect accuracy among variants absent from gnomAD. is freely available to the community as an R package, and may represent an example where long-read sequencing provides clear diagnostic benefit over short-read sequencing.
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Gigascience
January 2025
Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Wimauma, FL, 33598, USA.
Background: Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria xananassa Duch.), an allo-octoploid species arising from at least 3 diploid progenitors, poses a challenge for genomic analysis due to its high levels of heterozygosity and the complex nature of its polyploid genome.
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Am J Med Genet A
March 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Duplication-triplication/inverted-duplication (DUP-TRP/INV-DUP) is one of the mechanisms that causes genomic triplications. There are some characteristics of the DUP-TRP/INV-DUP; the appearance of a moving average of signal log2 ratio in genomic copy number analysis consisting of the highest center with lower steps on both sides; the chromosomal structure is composed of only two junctions; there are inverted repeats at the ends of the triplications and duplications on the same side and those connected in the opposite direction; and the size of the DUP-TRP/INV-DUP structure is generally less than the 1-Mb range. In this study, we analyzed two patients with DUP-TRP/INV-DUP involving PLP1 and MECP2.
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March 2025
International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 910 Hengshan Road, Shanghai, 200030, China.
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March 2025
State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and Offspring Health, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Institute of Women, Children and Reproductive Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Genetic diagnosis of ADPKD has been challenging due to the variant heterogeneity, presence of duplicated segments, and high GC content of exon 1 in PKD1. In our reproductive center, 40 patients were still genetically undiagnosed or diagnosed without single-nucleotide resolution after testing with a short-read sequencing panel in 312 patients with ADPKD phenotype. A combination of long-range PCR and long-read sequencing approach for PKD1 was performed on these 40 patients.
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March 2025
The Pennsylvania State University, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.
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