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Scientific articles
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CENTOGENE’s Variant Prioritization: Big Data and AI Driving Rare Disease Diagnosis
With big data being a key enabler of any successful artificial intelligence effort, CENTOGENE is ideally suited to employ artificial intelligence (AI) in our diagnostic workflow.
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Biallelic variants in the transcription factor PAX7 are a new genetic cause of myopathy
Disease expressivity varies widely in many genetic disorders, and identifying the underlying modifiers holds great translational potential. Based on its resources as regards technologies and samples, CENTOGENE is uniquely positioned to significantly contribute to pertinent efforts. One recent…
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Application of iPSC Technology in Orphan Drug Development
One of the major challenges in orphan drug development for rare genetic diseases is the lack of predictive high-throughput compound screening systems. While the underlying pathophysiology may be easier to investigate in monogenic diseases, in-vivo animal-based disease models often cannot…
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Genotype Phenotype Correlation in a New Fabry-Disease-Causing Mutation
The interpretation of missense variants in a disease context is challenging, especially for variants that have never been reported before. In metabolic disorders, the potential of biochemical analyses for assisting in variant classification is increasingly recognized. CENTOGENE therefore combined…
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A hexanucleotide repeat modifies expressivity of X-linked dystonia parkinsonism
Disease expressivity varies widely in many genetic disorders, and identifying the underlying modifiers holds great translational potential. Based on its resources as regards technologies and samples, CENTOGENE is uniquely positioned to significantly contribute to pertinent efforts. One recent…
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Identification of PKD1 and PKD2 gene variants in a cohort of 125 Asian Indian patients of ADPKD
CENTOGENE considers its global positioning a key aspect for generating truly novel knowledge. The company’s involvement in a recent large-scale epidemiological study in India nicely exemplifies the success of this approach. Upon genetic screening of Indian patients with chronic liver disease, many…
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A homozygous frameshift variant in an alternatively spliced exon of DLG5 causes hydrocephalus and renal dysplasia
Based on the ambition to provide maximum diagnostic yield, CENTOGENE offers follow up of negative WES/WGS reports in a research setting. Recently, this approach resulted in the association of a special form of congenital hydrocephalus with bi-allelic inactivation of the DLG5 gene. The finding, which…
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Assessment of Cardiac Involvement in Fabry Disease (FD) with Native T1 Mapping
Mass-spectrometry based quantification of biomarkers is a routine step in the diagnostic workup of many diseases at CENTOGENE. In addition, these well-established tools are increasingly being utilized in research settings. A recent example involved the Fabry Disease (FD)-specific biomarker Lyso-Gb3.…
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Prodromal substantia nigra sonography undermines suggested association between substrate accumulation and the risk for GBA‐related Parkinson's disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Gaucher disease are amongst the primary research foci at Centogene. As both conditions may be caused by mutations in the GBA gene, a common pathomechanism is widely assumed. Based on a combination of several approaches, an international team of GBA experts involving…
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Utility and implications of exome sequencing in early-onset Parkinson's disease.
Although the genetic load is high in early-onset Parkinson’s disease, thorough investigation of the genetic diagnostic yield has yet to be established. The objectives of this study were to assess variants in known genes for PD and other movement disorders and to find new candidates in 50 patients…