Search Results - "Haque, Imran S"
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Genetic ancestry analysis on >93,000 individuals undergoing expanded carrier screening reveals limitations of ethnicity-based medical guidelines
Published in Genetics in medicine (01-10-2020)“…Carrier status associates strongly with genetic ancestry, yet current carrier screening guidelines recommend testing for a limited set of conditions based on a…”
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Machine learning enables detection of early-stage colorectal cancer by whole-genome sequencing of plasma cell-free DNA
Published in BMC cancer (23-08-2019)“…Blood-based methods using cell-free DNA (cfDNA) are under development as an alternative to existing screening tests. However, early-stage detection of cancer…”
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Expanded carrier screening: A review of early implementation and literature
Published in Seminars in perinatology (01-02-2016)“…Abstract Carrier screening is the practice of testing individuals to identify those at increased risks of having children affected by genetic diseases…”
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Systematic Classification of Disease Severity for Evaluation of Expanded Carrier Screening Panels
Published in PloS one (10-12-2014)“…Professional guidelines dictate that disease severity is a key criterion for carrier screening. Expanded carrier screening, which tests for hundreds to…”
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The population genetics of human disease: The case of recessive, lethal mutations
Published in PLoS genetics (28-09-2017)“…Do the frequencies of disease mutations in human populations reflect a simple balance between mutation and purifying selection? What other factors shape the…”
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Knowledge and attitudes regarding expanded genetic carrier screening among women’s healthcare providers
Published in Fertility and sterility (01-02-2012)“…Objective To determine women’s healthcare providers’ knowledge and attitudes regarding genetic disorders and expanded genetic screening. Design Survey of…”
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Correction: The population genetics of human disease: The case of recessive, lethal mutations
Published in PLoS genetics (01-07-2018)“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006915.]…”
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Current and future perspectives of liquid biopsies in genomics-driven oncology
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-02-2019)“…Precision oncology seeks to leverage molecular information about cancer to improve patient outcomes. Tissue biopsy samples are widely used to characterize…”
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Modeled Fetal Risk of Genetic Diseases Identified by Expanded Carrier Screening
Published in JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (16-08-2016)“…IMPORTANCE: Screening for carrier status of a limited number of single-gene conditions is the current standard of prenatal care. Methods have become available…”
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Design and validation of a next generation sequencing assay for hereditary BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (28-06-2016)“…Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, caused by a germline pathogenic variant in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) genes, is characterized by an increased…”
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Development and validation of a 36-gene sequencing assay for hereditary cancer risk assessment
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (23-02-2017)“…The past two decades have brought many important advances in our understanding of the hereditary susceptibility to cancer. Numerous studies have provided…”
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Screening for Tay‐Sachs disease carriers by full‐exon sequencing with novel variant interpretation outperforms enzyme testing in a pan‐ethnic cohort
Published in Molecular genetics & genomic medicine (01-08-2019)“…Background Pathogenic variants in HEXA that impair β‐hexosaminidase A (Hex A) enzyme activity cause Tay‐Sachs Disease (TSD), a severe autosomal‐recessive…”
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MSMBuilder2: Modeling Conformational Dynamics on the Picosecond to Millisecond Scale
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (11-10-2011)“…Markov state models provide a framework for understanding the fundamental states and rates in the conformational dynamics of biomolecules. We describe an…”
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Enhanced DNA libraries for methylation analysis
Published in Nature biomedical engineering (01-06-2021)“…An efficient protocol for the preparation of DNA libraries for the analysis of methylation patterns in cell-free DNA in plasma enhances the sensitivity of…”
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Building, benchmarking, and exploring perturbative maps of transcriptional and morphological data
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-10-2024)“…The continued scaling of genetic perturbation technologies combined with high-dimensional assays such as cellular microscopy and RNA-sequencing has enabled…”
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High-resolution genome-wide mapping of chromosome-arm-scale truncations induced by CRISPR–Cas9 editing
Published in Nature genetics (01-07-2024)“…Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) is a powerful tool for introducing targeted mutations in…”
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An empirical estimate of carrier frequencies for 400+ causal Mendelian variants: results from an ethnically diverse clinical sample of 23,453 individuals
Published in Genetics in medicine (01-03-2013)“…Purpose: Recent developments in genomics have led to expanded carrier screening panels capable of assessing hundreds of causal mutations for genetic disease…”
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Clinical Utility of Expanded Carrier Screening: Reproductive Behaviors of At-Risk Couples
Published in Journal of genetic counseling (01-06-2018)“…Expanded carrier screening (ECS) analyzes dozens or hundreds of recessive genes to determine reproductive risk. Data on the clinical utility of screening…”
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Validation of an Expanded Carrier Screen that Optimizes Sensitivity via Full-Exon Sequencing and Panel-wide Copy Number Variant Identification
Published in Clinical chemistry (Baltimore, Md.) (01-07-2018)“…By identifying pathogenic variants across hundreds of genes, expanded carrier screening (ECS) enables prospective parents to assess the risk of transmitting an…”
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Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome carrier frequency and estimates of in utero mortality rates
Published in Prenatal diagnosis (01-04-2017)“…Objective To tabulate individual allele frequencies and total carrier frequency for Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome (SLOS) and compare expected versus observed…”
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