Title |
Assessment of clinical analytical sensitivity and specificity of next-generation sequencing for detection of simple and complex mutations
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Published in |
BMC Genomic Data, February 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2156-14-6 |
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Authors |
Ephrem LH Chin, Cristina da Silva, Madhuri Hegde |
Abstract |
Detecting mutations in disease genes by full gene sequence analysis is common in clinical diagnostic laboratories. Sanger dideoxy terminator sequencing allows for rapid development and implementation of sequencing assays in the clinical laboratory, but it has limited throughput, and due to cost constraints, only allows analysis of one or at most a few genes in a patient. Next-generation sequencing (NGS), on the other hand, has evolved rapidly, although to date it has mainly been used for large-scale genome sequencing projects and is beginning to be used in the clinical diagnostic testing. One advantage of NGS is that many genes can be analyzed easily at the same time, allowing for mutation detection when there are many possible causative genes for a specific phenotype. In addition, regions of a gene typically not tested for mutations, like deep intronic and promoter mutations, can also be detected. |
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