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| Title |
New strategies and emerging technologies for massively parallel sequencing: applications in medical research
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Genome Medicine, April 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/gm40 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elaine R Mardis |
| Abstract |
A variety of techniques that specifically target human gene sequences for differential capture from a genomic sample, coupled with next-generation, massively parallel DNA sequencing instruments, is rapidly supplanting the combination of polymerase chain reaction and capillary sequencing to discover coding variants in medically relevant samples. These studies are most appropriate for the sample numbers necessary to identify both common and rare single nucleotide variants, as well as small insertion or deletion events, which may cause complex inherited diseases. The same massively parallel sequencers are simultaneously being used for whole-genome resequencing and comprehensive, genome-wide variant discovery in studies of somatic diseases such as cancer. Viral and microbial researchers are using next-generation sequences to identify unknown etiologic agents in human diseases, to study the viral and microbial species that occupy surfaces of the human body, and to inform the clinical management of chronic infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Taken together, these approaches are dramatically accelerating the pace of human disease research and are already impacting patient care. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 128 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 4% |
| United States | 4 | 3% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 117 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 33 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 13% |
| Professor | 9 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 32 | 25% |
| Unknown | 12 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57 | 45% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 19 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 14% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 9% |
| Unknown | 15 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 June 2021.
All research outputs
#5,611,796
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Genome Medicine
#1,047
of 1,611 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,558
of 110,214 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Medicine
#2
of 13 outputs
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