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Identifying disease mutations in genomic medicine settings: current challenges and how to accelerate progress

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Medicine, July 2012
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Title
Identifying disease mutations in genomic medicine settings: current challenges and how to accelerate progress
Published in
Genome Medicine, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/gm359
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Authors

Gholson J Lyon, Kai Wang

Abstract

The pace of exome and genome sequencing is accelerating, with the identification of many new disease-causing mutations in research settings, and it is likely that whole exome or genome sequencing could have a major impact in the clinical arena in the relatively near future. However, the human genomics community is currently facing several challenges, including phenotyping, sample collection, sequencing strategies, bioinformatics analysis, biological validation of variant function, clinical interpretation and validity of variant data, and delivery of genomic information to various constituents. Here we review these challenges and summarize the bottlenecks for the clinical application of exome and genome sequencing, and we discuss ways for moving the field forward. In particular, we urge the need for clinical-grade sample collection, high-quality sequencing data acquisition, digitalized phenotyping, rigorous generation of variant calls, and comprehensive functional annotation of variants. Additionally, we suggest that a 'networking of science' model that encourages much more collaboration and online sharing of medical history, genomic data and biological knowledge, including among research participants and consumers/patients, will help establish causation and penetrance for disease causal variants and genes. As we enter this new era of genomic medicine, we envision that consumer-driven and consumer-oriented efforts will take center stage, thus allowing insights from the human genome project to translate directly back into individualized medicine.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 4%
United Kingdom 4 2%
France 2 1%
Brazil 2 1%
Norway 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 160 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 53 28%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 20%
Student > Master 20 11%
Other 17 9%
Student > Bachelor 12 6%
Other 28 15%
Unknown 20 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 73 39%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 32 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 32 17%
Computer Science 16 9%
Social Sciences 2 1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 25 13%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. 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 07 June 2023.
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#788,435
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Outputs from Genome Medicine
#145
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Outputs of similar age from Genome Medicine
#1
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