Abstract
Over the last decade next generation sequencing (NGS) has been extensively used to identify new pathogenic mutations and genes causing rare genetic diseases. The efficient analyses of NGS data is not trivial and requires a technically and biologically rigorous pipeline that addresses data quality control, accurate variant filtration to minimize false positives and false negatives, and prioritization of the remaining genes based on disease genomics and physiological knowledge. This review provides a pipeline including all these steps, describes popular software for each step of the analysis, and proposes a general framework for the identification of causal mutations and genes in individual patients of rare genetic diseases.
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Sevim Bayrak, C., Itan, Y. Identifying disease-causing mutations in genomes of single patients by computational approaches. Hum Genet 139, 769–776 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-020-02179-7
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