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Diagnosis of monogenic liver diseases in childhood by next-generation sequencing.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 2018
Stalke A, Skawran B, Auber B, Illig T, Schlegelberger B, Junge N, Goldschmidt I, Leiskau C, von Neuhoff N, Baumann U, Pfister E-D
Abstract excerpt
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has opened up novel diagnostic opportunities for children with unidentified, but suspected inherited diseases. We describe our single-center experience with NGS diagnostics in standard clinical scenarios in pediatric hepatology. We investigated 135 children with suspected inherited hepatopathies, where initially no causative pathogenic variant had been identified, with an...
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