Application of Whole Exome Sequencing in Six Families with an Initial Diagnosis of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa: Lessons Learned.

This study aimed to identify the genetics underlying dominant forms of inherited retinal dystrophies using whole exome sequencing (WES) in six families extensively screened for known mutations or genes. Thirty-eight individuals were subjected to WES. Causative variants were searched among single nuc...

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Main Authors: Berta Almoguera, Jiankang Li, Patricia Fernandez-San Jose, Yichuan Liu, Michael March, Renata Pellegrino, Ryan Golhar, Marta Corton, Fiona Blanco-Kelly, Maria Isabel López-Molina, Blanca García-Sandoval, Yiran Guo, Lifeng Tian, Xuanzhu Liu, Liping Guan, Jianguo Zhang, Brendan Keating, Xun Xu, Hakon Hakonarson, Carmen Ayuso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4509755?pdf=render