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. 2019 Apr 4;10(4):275. doi: 10.3390/genes10040275

Table 1.

Examples of diagnoses facilitated by Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS).

Authors Year Gene Disease Type of Variation Type of WGS Ref.
Kloosterman et al. 2011 Multiple Severe congenital abnormalities De novo SV (chromothripsis) SOLiD [23]
Gilissen et al. 2014 SHANK3 Phelan-McDermid syndrome De novo 66 kb deletion Complete Genomics [53]
Gilissen et al. 2014 VPS13B Cohen syndrome 1.7 kb and 122 kb deletions Complete Genomics [53]
Gilissen et al. 2014 MECP2 Rett syndrome De novo 0.6 kb deletion Complete Genomics [53]
Gilissen et al. 2014 IQSEC2 Intellectual disability De novo 62 kb interspersed duplication Complete Genomics [53]
Gilissen et al. 2014 SMC1A Cornelia de Lange syndrome De novo 2.1 kb deletion Complete Genomics [53]
Gilissen et al. 2014 Multiple 16p11.2 deletion syndrome De novo 611 kb deletion Complete Genomics [53]
Gilissen et al. 2014 STAG1 Intellectual Disability De novo 382 kb deletion Complete Genomics [53]
van Kuilenburg et al. 2017 DPYD DPDD Large intragenic inversion Illumina [52]
Chiu et al. 2017 Multiple Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis 425 kb deletion Illumina [63]
Borràs et al. 2017 PKD1 Polycystic kidney disease Various, 18/19 probands PacBio [64]
Cretu Stancu et al. 2017 Multiple Severe congenital abnormalities De novo SV (chromothripsis) ONT 1 + Illumina [65]
Alfares et al. 2018 PHOX2B Central hypoventilation syndrome GCN (25) repeat expansion [+25] Illumina [54]
Alfares et al. 2018 TPM3 Nemaline myopathy 1 Large deletion Illumina [54]
Alfares et al. 2018 TSC2 Tuberous sclerosis type 2 De novo deep intronic SNV Illumina [54]
Lionel et al. 2 2018 GPR143 Ocular albinism Deep intronic variant Illumina [55]
Lionel et al. 2 2018 OTC Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency Deep intronic variant Illumina [55]
Ostrander et al. 2018 Multiple Global developmental delay Balanced inverted translocation Illumina [56]
Ostrander et al. 2018 CDKL5 Global developmental delay De novo 63 kb tandem duplication Illumina [56]
Tavares et al. 2018 BBS1 Bardet-Biedl syndrome Retrotransposon insertion Illumina [66]
Cowley et al. 2018 SYNGAP1 Epileptic encephalopathy De novo 13 bp duplication Illumina [67]
Miao et al. 2018 G6PC Glycogen storage disease type Ia 7.1 kb deletion ONT 1 [68]
Merker et al. 2018 PRKAR1A Carney complex De novo 2184 bp deletion PacBio [69]
Sanchis-Juan et al. 2018 ARID1B Coffin-Siris syndrome De novo complex SV dupINVinvDEL Illumina [70]
Sanchis-Juan et al. 2018 HNRNPU Seizures; Intellectual disability De novo complex SV delINVdup Illumina [70]
Sanchis-Juan et al. 2018 CEP78 Cone-rod dystrophy; Hearing loss complex homozygous SV delINVdel Illumina [70]
Sanchis-Juan et al. 2018 CDKL5 Birth asphyxia; Fetal distress De novo complex SV dupINVdup Illumina + ONT 1 [70]
Ishiura et al. 2018 SAMD12 BAFME 3 TTTCA and TTTTA repeat expansions PacBio +ONT [57]
Ishiura et al. 2018 TNRC6A BAFME 3 TTTCA and TTTTA repeat expansions PacBio + ONT [57]
Ishiura et al. 2018 RAPGEF2 BAFME 3 TTTCA and TTTTA repeat expansions PacBio + ONT [57]
Mizuguchi et al. 2019 SAMD12 BAFME 3 4.6 kb intronic repeat insertion PacBio [71]

1 Oxford Nanopore Tech. 2 Lionel et al., reported 18 diagnoses by WGS; however, the majority was missed by exome panels since panels did not include the corresponding gene. The two deep intronic variants included in this table would not have been detected by exome sequencing approaches. 3 Benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy.