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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 25, 期 11, 页码 1268-1272出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2017.123
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- State Government of Victoria (Department of Health and Human Services)
- Bioplatforms Australia
- NCRIS program
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Royal Melbourne Hospital)
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Royal Children's Hospital)
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (University of Melbourne)
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Murdoch Childrens Research Institute)
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Australian Genome Research Facility)
- Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (CSIRO)
Rapid identification of clinically significant variants is key to the successful application of next generation sequencing technologies in clinical practice. The Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (MGHA) variant prioritization framework employs a gene prioritization index based on clinician-generated a priori gene lists, and a variant prioritization index (VPI) based on rarity, conservation and protein effect. We used data from 80 patients who underwent singleton whole exome sequencing (WES) to test the ability of the framework to rank causative variants highly, and compared it against the performance of other gene and variant prioritization tools. Causative variants were identified in 59 of the patients. Using the MGHA prioritization framework the average rank of the causative variant was 2.24, with 76% ranked as the top priority variant, and 90% ranked within the top five. Using clinician-generated gene lists resulted in ranking causative variants an average of 8.2 positions higher than prioritization based on variant properties alone. This clinically driven prioritization approach significantly outperformed purely computational tools, placing a greater proportion of causative variants top or in the top 5 (permutation P-value = 0.001). Clinicians included 40 of the 49 WES diagnoses in their a priori list of differential diagnoses (81%). The lists generated by PhenoTips and Phenomizer contained 14 (29%) and 18 (37%) of these diagnoses respectively. These results highlight the benefits of clinically led variant prioritization in increasing the efficiency of singleton WES data analysis and have important implications for developing models for the funding and delivery of genomic services.
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