Introduction: Myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like (MELAS) syndrome, a maternally inherited disorder that is among the most common mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases, is usually ...
Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes; also known as “squint”) comprises a common heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by a constant or intermittent ocular deviation often associated with ...
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depressive illness) is a complex genetic disorder in which the core feature is pathological disturbance in mood (affect) ranging from extreme elation, or mania, ...
*Department of Medical Genetics, Haartman Institute, PO Box 21 (Haartmaninkatu 3), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland †Finnish Genome Centre, PO Box 21 (Tukholmankatu 2), FIN-00014 ...
Background Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has recently been introduced as a diagnostic test for patients with particular rare diseases in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Little is known ...
*Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Wales, Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, PO Box 905, Cardiff CF1 3XF, UK †Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales, ...
4 Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bambino Gesu’ Hospital, Rome, Italy 5 Molecular Medicine Unit, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bambino Gesu’ Hospital, Rome ...
Background Pathogenicity predictors are integral to genomic variant interpretation but, despite their widespread usage, an independent validation of performance using a clinically relevant dataset has ...