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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2021 Nov 11;385(20):1868–1880. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2035790

Table 2.

Disease Categories among the Probands in the 100,000 Genomes Project Pilot Study.*

Disease Category All Family
Structures
(2183 Probands)
Singleton
(881 Probands)
Family Duo
(343 Probands)
Family Trio
(797 Probands)
Larger Family
Structure
(162 Probands)
number of probands (percent)
Cardiovascular disorder 147 (7) 56 (6) 24 (7) 49 (6) 18 (11)
Ciliopathy 69 (3) 34 (4) 14 (4) 16 (2) 5 (3)
Dermatologic disorder 38 (2) 9 (1) 5 (1) 22 (3) 2 (1)
Dysmorphic or congenital abnormality 20 (1) 10 (1) 2 (1) 7 (1) 1 (1)
Endocrine disorder 87 (4) 57 (6) 14 (4) 12 (2) 4 (2)
Gastroenterologic disorder 32 (1) 0 0 18 (2) 14 (9)
Growth disorder 3 (<1) 3 (<1) 0 0 0
Hematologic or immunologic disorder 5 (<1) 2 (<1) 3 (1) 0 0
Hematologic disorder 7 (<1) 0 3 (1) 2 (<1) 2 (1)
Hearing or ear disorder 35 (2) 6 (1) 5 (1) 17 (2) 7 (4)
Metabolic disorder 93 (4) 24 (3) 12 (3) 48 (6) 9 (6)
Intellectual disability 130 (6) 10 (1) 24 (7) 78 (10) 18 (11)
Neurologic or neurodevelopmental disorder 521 (24) 193 (22) 93 (27) 194 (24) 41 (25)
Ophthalmologic disorder 348 (16) 74 (8) 62 (18) 199 (25) 13 (8)
Renal and urinary tract disorder 176 (8) 125 (14) 21 (6) 26 (3) 4 (2)
Respiratory disorder 2 (<1) 1 (<1) 0 1 (<1) 0
Rheumatologic disorder 48 (2) 14 (2) 6 (2) 25 (3) 3 (2)
Skeletal disorder 62 (3) 15 (2) 11 (3) 23 (3) 13 (8)
Tumor syndrome 293 (13) 231 (26) 31 (9) 27 (3) 4 (2)
Other 67 (3) 17 (2) 12 (3) 34 (4) 4 (2)
Total 2183 (100) 881 (100) 343 (100) 797 (100) 162 (100)
*

Singleton refers to a proband for whom no other family member was recruited, family duo to a parent–proband pair, family trio to both parents and a proband, and family quad to a proband, sibling, and parents.

Neurologic and neurodevelopmental symptoms excluded intellectual disability.