Clinical application of next generation sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnosis in the Iranian population

Abstract Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been proven to be one of the most powerful diagnostic tools for rare Mendelian disorders. Several studies on the clinical application of NGS in unselected cohorts of Middle Eastern patients have reported a high diagnostic yield of up to 48%, correlated w...

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Main Authors: Ayda Abolhassani, Zohreh Fattahi, Maryam Beheshtian, Mahsa Fadaee, Raheleh Vazehan, Fatemeh Ahangari, Shima Dehdahsi, Mehrshid Faraji Zonooz, Elham Parsimehr, Zahra Kalhor, Fatemeh Peymani, Maryam Mozaffarpour Nouri, Mojgan Babanejad, Khadijeh Noudehi, Fatemeh Fatehi, Shima Zamanian Najafabadi, Fariba Afroozan, Hilda Yazdan, Bita Bozorgmehr, Azita Azarkeivan, Shokouh Sadat Mahdavi, Pooneh Nikuei, Farzad Fatehi, Payman Jamali, Mahmoud Reza Ashrafi, Parvaneh Karimzadeh, Haleh Habibi, Kimia Kahrizi, Shahriar Nafissi, Ariana Kariminejad, Hossein Najmabadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:npj Genomic Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41525-024-00393-0