Whole-Exome Sequencing and Whole-Genome Sequencing in Critically Ill Neonates Suspected to Have Single-Gene Disorders
Open Access
- 18 December 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
- Vol. 6 (2), a023168
- https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a023168
Abstract
As the ability to identify the contribution of genetic background to human disease continues to advance, there is no discipline of medicine in which this may have a larger impact than in the care of the ill neonate. Newborns with congenital malformations, syndromic conditions, and inherited disorders often undergo an extensive, expensive, and long diagnostic process, often without a final diagnosis resulting in significant health care, societal, and personal costs. Although ethical concerns have been raised about the use of whole-genome sequencing in medical practice, its role in the diagnosis of rare disorders in ill neonates in tertiary care neonatal intensive care units has the potential to augment or modify the care of this vulnerable population of patients.This publication has 78 references indexed in Scilit:
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