Search Results - "Firth, Helen V."
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De novo mutations in regulatory elements in neurodevelopmental disorders
Published in Nature (London) (29-03-2018)“…We previously estimated that 42% of patients with severe developmental disorders carry pathogenic de novo mutations in coding sequences. The role of de novo…”
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Common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare severe neurodevelopmental disorders
Published in Nature (London) (01-10-2018)“…There are thousands of rare human disorders that are caused by single deleterious, protein-coding genetic variants 1 . However, patients with the same genetic…”
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DECIPHER : Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans Using Ensembl Resources
Published in American journal of human genetics (01-04-2009)“…Many patients suffering from developmental disorders harbor submicroscopic deletions or duplications that, by affecting the copy number of dosage-sensitive…”
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DECIPHER: database for the interpretation of phenotype-linked plausibly pathogenic sequence and copy-number variation
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-01-2014)“…The DECIPHER database (https://decipher.sanger.ac.uk/) is an accessible online repository of genetic variation with associated phenotypes that facilitates the…”
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Attitudes of nearly 7000 health professionals, genomic researchers and publics toward the return of incidental results from sequencing research
Published in European journal of human genetics : EJHG (01-01-2016)“…Genome-wide sequencing in a research setting has the potential to reveal health-related information of personal or clinical utility for the study participant…”
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Flexible and scalable diagnostic filtering of genomic variants using G2P with Ensembl VEP
Published in Nature communications (30-05-2019)“…We aimed to develop an efficient, flexible and scalable approach to diagnostic genome-wide sequence analysis of genetically heterogeneous clinical…”
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Pathogenicity and selective constraint on variation near splice sites
Published in Genome research (01-02-2019)“…Mutations that perturb normal pre-mRNA splicing are significant contributors to human disease. We used exome sequencing data from 7833 probands with…”
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De Novo Loss-of-Function Mutations in SETD5, Encoding a Methyltransferase in a 3p25 Microdeletion Syndrome Critical Region, Cause Intellectual Disability
Published in American journal of human genetics (03-04-2014)“…To identify further Mendelian causes of intellectual disability (ID), we screened a cohort of 996 individuals with ID for variants in 565 known or candidate…”
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Importance of adopting standardized MANE transcripts in clinical reporting
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Contribution of retrotransposition to developmental disorders
Published in Nature communications (11-10-2019)“…Mobile genetic Elements (MEs) are segments of DNA which can copy themselves and other transcribed sequences through the process of retrotransposition (RT). In…”
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Saturation genome editing of DDX3X clarifies pathogenicity of germline and somatic variation
Published in Nature communications (06-12-2023)“…Loss-of-function of DDX3X is a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in females. DDX3X is also a somatically mutated cancer driver gene proposed…”
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Minimum information and guidelines for reporting a multiplexed assay of variant effect
Published in Genome Biology (19-04-2024)“…Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) have emerged as a powerful approach for interrogating thousands of genetic variants in a single experiment. The…”
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Evaluating variants classified as pathogenic in ClinVar in the DDD Study
Published in Genetics in medicine (01-03-2021)“…Purpose Automated variant filtering is an essential part of diagnostic genome-wide sequencing but may generate false negative results. We sought to investigate…”
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Investigating the role of common cis-regulatory variants in modifying penetrance of putatively damaging, inherited variants in severe neurodevelopmental disorders
Published in Scientific reports (15-04-2024)“…Recent work has revealed an important role for rare, incompletely penetrant inherited coding variants in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Additionally, we…”
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Trappc9 deficiency causes parent-of-origin dependent microcephaly and obesity
Published in PLoS genetics (02-09-2020)“…Some imprinted genes exhibit parental origin specific expression bias rather than being transcribed exclusively from one copy. The physiological relevance of…”
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Curating genomic disease-gene relationships with Gene2Phenotype (G2P)
Published in Genome medicine (06-11-2024)“…Abstract Genetically determined disorders are highly heterogenous in clinical presentation and underlying molecular mechanism. The evidence underpinning these…”
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Facilitating Collaboration in Rare Genetic Disorders Through Effective Matchmaking in DECIPHER
Published in Human mutation (01-10-2015)“…ABSTRACT DECIPHER (https://decipher.sanger.ac.uk) is a web‐based platform for secure deposition, analysis, and sharing of plausibly pathogenic genomic variants…”
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Heterozygous mutations affecting the protein kinase domain of CDK13 cause a syndromic form of developmental delay and intellectual disability
Published in Journal of medical genetics (01-01-2018)“…Recent evidence has emerged linking mutations in to syndromic congenital heart disease. We present here genetic and phenotypic data pertaining to 16…”
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Mutations in MEF2C from the 5q14.3q15 microdeletion syndrome region are a frequent cause of severe mental retardation and diminish MECP2 and CDKL5 expression
Published in Human mutation (01-06-2010)“…The etiology of mental retardation remains elusive in the majority of cases. Microdeletions within chromosomal bands 5q14.3q15 were recently identified as a…”
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Integrating population variation and protein structural analysis to improve clinical interpretation of missense variation: application to the WD40 domain
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-03-2016)“…We present a generic, multidisciplinary approach for improving our understanding of novel missense variants in recently discovered disease genes exhibiting…”
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