Clinical Utility of Rapid Exome Sequencing Combined With Mitochondrial DNA Sequencing in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients With Suspected Genetic Disorders

Genetic disorders are a frequent cause of hospitalization, morbidity and mortality in pediatric patients, especially in the neonatal or pediatric intensive care unit (NICU/PICU). In recent years, rapid genome-wide sequencing (exome or whole genome sequencing) has been applied in the NICU/PICU. Howev...

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Main Authors: Xuejun Ouyang, Yu Zhang, Lijuan Zhang, Jixuan Luo, Ting Zhang, Hui Hu, Lin Liu, Lieqiang Zhong, Shaoying Zeng, Pingyi Xu, Zhenjiang Bai, Lee-Jun Wong, Jing Wang, Chunli Wang, Bin Wang, Victor Wei Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.725259/full