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Landscape of parental postzygotic mutations across >11,000 rare disease trios.
American journal of human genetics - 6 Aug 2026
Garcia-Salinas O Isaac, Andrews Katrina A, Sanghvi Rashesh, Sayer John A, Torra I Benach Maria, Pham My H, Scally Aylwyn, Martin Hilary C, Rahbari Raheleh
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Early postzygotic mutations (PZMs) that arise after fertilization but prior to primordial germ cell specification may be present in both somatic and germ cells, causing mosaicism in a parent and constitutive inheritance in their offspring. In clinical family-trio whole-genome sequencing (WGS), such variants are systematically missed because their sub-heterozygous variant allele fraction (VAF) prevents...
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