scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

A genomic view of mosaicism and human disease

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The clinical and molecular classes of mosaicism, their detection and the biological insights gained from these studies are discussed.
Abstract
Genomic technologies, including next-generation sequencing (NGS) and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarrays, have provided unprecedented opportunities to assess genomic variation among, and increasingly within, individuals. It has long been known that cancer is a mosaic genetic disorder, but mosaicism is now apparent in a diverse range of other clinical disorders, as indicated by their tissue distributions and inheritance patterns. Recent technical advances have uncovered the causative mosaic variant underlying many of these conditions and have provided insight into the pervasiveness of mosaicism in normal individuals. Here, we discuss the clinical and molecular classes of mosaicism, their detection and the biological insights gained from these studies.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Towards precision medicine

TL;DR: A deeper understanding of disease will be realized that will allow its targeting with much greater therapeutic precision, and global sharing of more accurate genotypic and phenotypic data will accelerate the determination of causality for novel genes or variants.
Journal ArticleDOI

Revealing the vectors of cellular identity with single-cell genomics

TL;DR: In this paper, a cell is represented as a superposition of "basis vectors", each determining a different (but possibly dependent) aspect of cellular organization and function, which can be used for constructing and characterizing a reference map of cell identities.
Journal ArticleDOI

Timing, rates and spectra of human germline mutation

TL;DR: The data suggest that the mutation rate per cell division is higher during both early embryogenesis and differentiation of primordial germ cells but is reduced substantially during post-pubertal spermatogenesis, which has important consequences for the recurrence risks of disorders caused by de novo mutations.
Journal ArticleDOI

Advances and applications of single-cell sequencing technologies.

TL;DR: In this review, single-cell sequencing technologies and applications, as well as translational applications in the clinic are discussed.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Epigenetic differences arise during the lifetime of monozygotic twins

TL;DR: Older monozygous twins exhibited remarkable differences in their overall content and genomic distribution of 5-methylcytosine DNA and histone acetylation, affecting their gene-expression portrait, indicating how an appreciation of epigenetics is missing from the understanding of how different phenotypes can be originated from the same genotype.
Journal ArticleDOI

The impact of next-generation sequencing technology on genetics.

TL;DR: Next-generation sequencing technologies are surveyed and it is considered how they can provide a more complete picture of how the genome shapes the organism.
Journal ArticleDOI

Activating mutations of the stimulatory G protein in the McCune-Albright syndrome.

TL;DR: Mutations within exon 8 of the Gs alpha gene that result in increased activity of theGs protein and increased cAMP formation are present in various tissues of patients with the McCune-Albright syndrome.
Related Papers (5)

Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

Cathy C. Laurie, +72 more
- 01 Jun 2012 -