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Molecular diagnosis in recessive pediatric neurogenetic disease can help reduce disease recurrence in families.
BMC medical genomics - 13 May 2020
Issa Mahmoud Y, Chechlacz Zinayida, Stanley Valentina, George Renee D, McEvoy-Venneri Jennifer, Belandres Denice, Elbendary Hasnaa M, Gaber Khaled R, Nabil Ahmed, Abdel-Hamid Mohamed S, Zaki Maha S, Gleeson Joseph G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The causes for thousands of individually rare recessive diseases have been discovered since the adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS). Following the molecular diagnosis in older children in a family, parents could use this information to opt for fetal genotyping in subsequent pregnancies, which could inform decisions about elective termination of pregnancy. The use of NGS diagnostic sequencing...
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