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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Kyle Thompson, Jack Collier, Ruth Glasgow, Dr Fiona Robertson, Dr Angela Pyle, Dr Charlotte Alston, Dr Monika Olahova, Professor Bobby McFarlandORCiD, Professor Robert Taylor
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© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of SSIEM Mitochondrial disease is hugely diverse with respect to associated clinical presentations and underlying genetic causes, with pathogenic variants in over 300 disease genes currently described. Approximately half of these have been discovered in the last decade due to the increasingly widespread application of next generation sequencing technologies, in particular unbiased, whole exome—and latterly, whole genome sequencing. These technologies allow more genetic data to be collected from patients with mitochondrial disorders, continually improving the diagnostic success rate in a clinical setting. Despite these significant advances, some patients still remain without a definitive genetic diagnosis. Large datasets containing many variants of unknown significance have become a major challenge with next generation sequencing strategies and these require significant functional validation to confirm pathogenicity. This interface between diagnostics and research is critical in continuing to expand the list of known pathogenic variants and concomitantly enhance our knowledge of mitochondrial biology. The increasing use of whole exome sequencing, whole genome sequencing and other “omics” techniques such as transcriptomics and proteomics will generate even more data and allow further interrogation and validation of genetic causes, including those outside of coding regions. This will improve diagnostic yields still further and emphasizes the integral role that functional assessment of variant causality plays in this process—the overarching focus of this review.
Author(s): Thompson K, Collier JJ, Glasgow RIC, Robertson FM, Pyle A, Blakely EL, Alston CL, Olahova M, McFarland R, Taylor RW
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
Year: 2020
Volume: 43
Issue: 1
Pages: 36-50
Print publication date: 20/01/2020
Online publication date: 25/04/2019
Acceptance date: 24/04/2019
ISSN (print): 0141-8955
ISSN (electronic): 1573-2665
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12104
DOI: 10.1002/jimd.12104
PubMed id: 31021000
