Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Personalised analytics for rare disease diagnostics

  • Denise Anderson,
  • Gareth Baynam,
  • Jenefer M. Blackwell,
  • Timo Lassmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13345-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Genome sequencing is being widely adopted for diagnosis of genetic diseases, but identifying the causal variants remains challenging. Here, the authors introduce a tool that incorporates tissue-specific gene expression data into predicting variant pathogenicity, improving accuracy.