Application of Genome Sequencing from Blood to Diagnose Mitochondrial Diseases

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Rius, Rocio
Compton, Alison G
Baker, Naomi L
Welch, AnneMarie E
Coman, David
Kava, Maina P
Minoche, Andre E
Cowley, Mark J
Thorburn, David R
Christodoulou, John
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2021
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Mitochondrial diseases can be caused by pathogenic variants in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA-encoded genes that often lead to multisystemic symptoms and can have any mode of inheri-tance. Using a single test, Genome Sequencing (GS) can effectively identify variants in both genomes, but it has not yet been universally used as a first-line approach to diagnosing mitochondrial diseases due to related costs and challenges in data analysis. In this article, we report three patients with mito-chondrial disease molecularly diagnosed through GS performed on DNA extracted from blood to demonstrate different diagnostic advantages of this technology, including the detection of a low-level heteroplasmic pathogenic variant, an intragenic nuclear DNA deletion, and a large mtDNA dele-tion. Current technical improvements and cost reductions are likely to lead to an expanded routine diagnostic usage of GS and of the complementary “Omic” technologies in mitochondrial diseases.

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Genes

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12

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4

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Genetics

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Genetics & Heredity

mitochondria

heteroplasmy

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Rius, R; Compton, AG; Baker, NL; Welch, AE; Coman, D; Kava, MP; Minoche, AE; Cowley, MJ; Thorburn, DR; Christodoulou, J, Application of Genome Sequencing from Blood to Diagnose Mitochondrial Diseases, Genes, 2021, 12 (4), pp. 607

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