Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Diagnosis of fusion genes using targeted RNA sequencing

  • Erin E. Heyer,
  • Ira W. Deveson,
  • Danson Wooi,
  • Christina I. Selinger,
  • Ruth J. Lyons,
  • Vanessa M. Hayes,
  • Sandra A. O’Toole,
  • Mandy L. Ballinger,
  • Devinder Gill,
  • David M. Thomas,
  • Tim R. Mercer,
  • James Blackburn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09374-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Rapid and accurate detection of fusion genes is important in cancer diagnostics. Here, the authors demonstrate that targeted RNA sequencing provides fast, sensitive and quantitative gene fusion detection and overcomes the limitations of approaches currently in clinical use.