Diagnosis through genetic testing can strongly help uncover the cause of persistent, often debilitating, undiagnosed symptoms in patients suffering with suspected genetic metabolic disorders. With knowledge of variants in over 1,250 metabolic disease genes, our rapid testing and extensive experience of metabolic disease genetics can help you diagnose and manage your patients’ metabolic disorder quickly and correctly. Ultimately this can provide new insights into treatment options and predict the likelihood of passing the inherited condition on to offspring or the presence of it elsewhere in the family.
Articles on Metabolic Disorders
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Personalizing Therapeutic Decisions in Fabry Disease
More than a single treatment option is available for some genetic disorders. For Fabry Disease, the optimal choice requires biochemical characterization of the causative mutation. Using a novel assay, researchers from Rostock University and CENTOGENE have now re-investigated almost 200 Fabry…
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Generation of iPSCs for Rare Diseases
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) represent excellent in vitro models to study rare diseases and perform high-throughput drug screening. CENTOGENE has established iPSC technology for rare monogenetic diseases in its Rostock headquarters based on patient-derived fibroblasts.
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Moving Towards New Therapies for Fabry Disease
Fabry disease is a multi-system lysosomal storage disorder. As it is caused by an enzyme deficiency, enzyme replacement therapy is the standard treatment option. To overcome some of the issues with this strategy, alternatives are being explored through a collaborative effort involving researchers…
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Diagnostic Utility of Biomarkers
Classification of genomic variants in a disease context is a highly formalized process, which benefits from diverse types of information. At CENTOGENE, this routinely involves the quantification of disease-specific biomarkers in a patient sample. The utility of this approach for deriving an…
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Novel Insights into a Rare Disorder
A profound understanding of rare genetic disorders relies on the description of large numbers of patients. Based on its unique positioning in the rare disease field, CENTOGENE can significantly contribute on multiple levels. This is exemplified by a recent corresponding study in the Journal of…