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Equity in genome sequencing for rare disease diagnosis: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the UK 100,000 Genomes Project.
EBioMedicine - 1 Sept 2026
Tallman Sam, Moutsianas Loukas, Nguyen Thuy, Cho Yoonsu, Mackintosh Maxine, Kasperaviciute Dalia, Brown Matthew A, Ellingford Jamie M, Kuchenbaecker Karoline, Silver Matt J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genome sequencing has improved rare disease diagnosis and is now part of routine clinical care in the National Health Service in England. Automated prioritisation pipelines narrow millions of variants per patient to a small subset for clinical review, a process that relies on allele frequency resources that do not fully represent human genetic diversity. We assessed ancestry-related differences in...
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- Humans
- Rare Diseases
- Gene Frequency
- United Kingdom
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Genome, Human
