{"title":"Clinical application of next generation sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnosis in the Iranian population","authors":"Ayda Abolhassani, Zohreh Fattahi, Maryam Beheshtian, Mahsa Fadaee, Raheleh Vazehan, Fatemeh Ahangari, Shima Dehdahsi, Mehrshid Faraji Zonooz, Elham Parsimehr, Zahra Kalhor, Fatemeh Peymani, Maryam Mozaffarpour Nouri, Mojgan Babanejad, Khadijeh Noudehi, Fatemeh Fatehi, Shima Zamanian Najafabadi, Fariba Afroozan, Hilda Yazdan, Bita Bozorgmehr, Azita Azarkeivan, Shokouh Sadat Mahdavi, Pooneh Nikuei, Farzad Fatehi, Payman Jamali, Mahmoud Reza Ashrafi, Parvaneh Karimzadeh, Haleh Habibi, Kimia Kahrizi, Shahriar Nafissi, Ariana Kariminejad, Hossein Najmabadi","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00393-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41525-024-00393-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been proven to be one of the most powerful diagnostic tools for rare Mendelian disorders. Several studies on the clinical application of NGS in unselected cohorts of Middle Eastern patients have reported a high diagnostic yield of up to 48%, correlated with a high level of consanguinity in these populations. We evaluated the diagnostic utility of NGS-based testing across different clinical indications in 1436 patients from Iran, representing the first study of its kind in this highly consanguineous population. A total of 1075 exome sequencing and 361 targeted gene panel sequencing were performed over 8 years at a single clinical genetics laboratory, with the majority of cases tested as proband-only (91.6%). The overall diagnostic rate was 46.7%, ranging from 24% in patients with an abnormality of prenatal development to over 67% in patients with an abnormality of the skin. We identified 660 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants, including 241 novel variants, associated with over 342 known genetic conditions. The highly consanguineous nature of this cohort led to the diagnosis of autosomal recessive disorders in the majority of patients (79.1%) and allowed us to determine the shared carrier status of couples for suspected recessive phenotypes in their deceased child(ren) when direct testing was not possible. We also highlight the observations of recessive inheritance of genes previously associated only with dominant disorders and provide an expanded genotype–phenotype spectrum for multiple less-characterized genes. We present the largest mutational spectrum of known Mendelian disease, including possible founder variants, throughout the Iranian population, which can serve as a unique resource for clinical genomic studies locally and beyond.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139902070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the efficacy of target adaptive sampling long-read sequencing through hereditary cancer patient genomes.","authors":"Wataru Nakamura, Makoto Hirata, Satoyo Oda, Kenichi Chiba, Ai Okada, Raúl Nicolás Mateos, Masahiro Sugawa, Naoko Iida, Mineko Ushiama, Noriko Tanabe, Hiromi Sakamoto, Shigeki Sekine, Akira Hirasawa, Yosuke Kawai, Katsushi Tokunaga, Shin-Ichi Tsujimoto, Norio Shiba, Shuichi Ito, Teruhiko Yoshida, Yuichi Shiraishi","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00394-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-024-00394-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Innovations in sequencing technology have led to the discovery of novel mutations that cause inherited diseases. However, many patients with suspected genetic diseases remain undiagnosed. Long-read sequencing technologies are expected to significantly improve the diagnostic rate by overcoming the limitations of short-read sequencing. In addition, Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) offers adaptive sampling and computationally driven target enrichment technology. This enables more affordable intensive analysis of target gene regions compared to standard non-selective long-read sequencing. In this study, we developed an efficient computational workflow for target adaptive sampling long-read sequencing (TAS-LRS) and evaluated it through application to 33 genomes collected from suspected hereditary cancer patients. Our workflow can identify single nucleotide variants with nearly the same accuracy as the short-read platform and elucidate complex forms of structural variations. We also newly identified several SINE-R/VNTR/Alu (SVA) elements affecting the APC gene in two patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, as well as their sites of origin. In addition, we demonstrated that off-target reads from adaptive sampling, which is typically discarded, can be effectively used to accurately genotype common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the entire genome, enabling the calculation of a polygenic risk score. Furthermore, we identified allele-specific MLH1 promoter hypermethylation in a Lynch syndrome patient. In summary, our workflow with TAS-LRS can simultaneously capture monogenic risk variants including complex structural variations, polygenic background as well as epigenetic alterations, and will be an efficient platform for genetic disease research and diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10874402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139898178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Germline mutations of 4567 patients with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer spectrum in Thailand.","authors":"Chalermkiat Kansuttiviwat, Pongtawat Lertwilaiwittaya, Ekkapong Roothumnong, Panee Nakthong, Peerawat Dungort, Chutima Meesamarnpong, Warisara Tansa-Nga, Khontawan Pongsuktavorn, Supakit Wiboonthanasarn, Warunya Tititumjariya, Nannipa Phuphuripan, Chittapat Lertbussarakam, Jantanee Wattanarangsan, Jiraporn Sritun, Kittiporn Punuch, Jirayu Kammarabutr, Pornthira Mutirangura, Wanna Thongnoppakhun, Chanin Limwongse, Manop Pithukpakorn","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00400-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-024-00400-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multi-gene panel testing has led to the detection of pathogenic/likely pathogenic (P/LP) variants in many cancer susceptibility genes in patients with breast-ovarian cancer spectrum. However, the clinical and genomic data of Asian populations, including Thai cancer patients, was underrepresented, and the clinical significance of multi-gene panel testing in Thailand remains undetermined. In this study, we collected the clinical and genetic data from 4567 Thai patients with cancer in the hereditary breast-ovarian cancer (HBOC) spectrum who underwent multi-gene panel testing. Six hundred and ten individuals (13.4%) had germline P/LP variants. Detection rates of germline P/LP variants in breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer were 11.8%, 19.8%, 14.0%, and 7.1%, respectively. Non-BRCA gene mutations accounted for 35% of patients with germline P/LP variants. ATM was the most common non-BRCA gene mutation. Four hundred and thirty-two breast cancer patients with germline P/LP variants (80.4%) met the current NCCN genetic testing criteria. The most common indication was early-onset breast cancer. Ten patients harbored double pathogenic variants in this cohort. Our result showed that a significant proportion of non-BRCA P/LP variants were identified in patients with HBOC-related cancers. These findings support the benefit of multi-gene panel testing for inherited cancer susceptibility among Thai HBOC patients. Some modifications of the testing policy may be appropriate for implementation in diverse populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10866978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139735712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilias Goranitis, Yan Meng, Melissa Martyn, Stephanie Best, Sophie Bouffler, Yvonne Bombard, Clara Gaff, Zornitza Stark
{"title":"Eliciting parental preferences and values for the return of additional findings from genomic sequencing.","authors":"Ilias Goranitis, Yan Meng, Melissa Martyn, Stephanie Best, Sophie Bouffler, Yvonne Bombard, Clara Gaff, Zornitza Stark","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00399-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-024-00399-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health economic evidence is needed to inform the design of high-value and cost-effective processes for returning genomic results from analyses for additional findings (AF). This study reports the results of a discrete-choice experiment designed to elicit preferences for the process of returning AF results from the perspective of parents of children with rare conditions and to estimate the value placed on AF analysis. Overall, 94 parents recruited within the Australian Genomics and Melbourne Genomics programmes participated in the survey, providing preferences in a total of 1128 choice scenarios. Statistically significant preferences were identified for the opportunity to change the choices made about AF; receiving positive AF in person from a genetic counsellor; timely access to a medical specialist and high-quality online resources; receiving automatic updates through a secure online portal if new information becomes available; and lower costs. For AF uptake rates ranging between 50-95%, the mean per person value from AF analysis was estimated at AU$450-$1700 (US$300-$1140). The findings enable the design of a value-maximising process of analysis for AF in rare-disease genomic sequencing.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10867021/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139735711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claude Bhérer, Robert Eveleigh, Katerina Trajanoska, Janick St-Cyr, Antoine Paccard, Praveen Nadukkalam Ravindran, Elizabeth Caron, Nimara Bader Asbah, Peyton McClelland, Clare Wei, Iris Baumgartner, Marc Schindewolf, Yvonne Döring, Danielle Perley, François Lefebvre, Pierre Lepage, Mathieu Bourgey, Guillaume Bourque, Jiannis Ragoussis, Vincent Mooser, Daniel Taliun
{"title":"A cost-effective sequencing method for genetic studies combining high-depth whole exome and low-depth whole genome.","authors":"Claude Bhérer, Robert Eveleigh, Katerina Trajanoska, Janick St-Cyr, Antoine Paccard, Praveen Nadukkalam Ravindran, Elizabeth Caron, Nimara Bader Asbah, Peyton McClelland, Clare Wei, Iris Baumgartner, Marc Schindewolf, Yvonne Döring, Danielle Perley, François Lefebvre, Pierre Lepage, Mathieu Bourgey, Guillaume Bourque, Jiannis Ragoussis, Vincent Mooser, Daniel Taliun","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00390-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-024-00390-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Whole genome sequencing (WGS) at high-depth (30X) allows the accurate discovery of variants in the coding and non-coding DNA regions and helps elucidate the genetic underpinnings of human health and diseases. Yet, due to the prohibitive cost of high-depth WGS, most large-scale genetic association studies use genotyping arrays or high-depth whole exome sequencing (WES). Here we propose a cost-effective method which we call \"Whole Exome Genome Sequencing\" (WEGS), that combines low-depth WGS and high-depth WES with up to 8 samples pooled and sequenced simultaneously (multiplexed). We experimentally assess the performance of WEGS with four different depth of coverage and sample multiplexing configurations. We show that the optimal WEGS configurations are 1.7-2.0 times cheaper than standard WES (no-plexing), 1.8-2.1 times cheaper than high-depth WGS, reach similar recall and precision rates in detecting coding variants as WES, and capture more population-specific variants in the rest of the genome that are difficult to recover when using genotype imputation methods. We apply WEGS to 862 patients with peripheral artery disease and show that it directly assesses more known disease-associated variants than a typical genotyping array and thousands of non-imputable variants per disease-associated locus.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10850497/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hannah E. Bergom, Laura A. Sena, Abderrahman Day, Benjamin Miller, Carly D. Miller, John R. Lozada, Nicholas Zorko, Jinhua Wang, Eugene Shenderov, Francisco Pereira Lobo, Fernanda Caramella-Pereira, Luigi Marchionni, Charles G. Drake, Tamara Lotan, Angelo M. De Marzo, Justin Hwang, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis
{"title":"Divergent immune microenvironments in two tumor nodules from a patient with mismatch repair-deficient prostate cancer","authors":"Hannah E. Bergom, Laura A. Sena, Abderrahman Day, Benjamin Miller, Carly D. Miller, John R. Lozada, Nicholas Zorko, Jinhua Wang, Eugene Shenderov, Francisco Pereira Lobo, Fernanda Caramella-Pereira, Luigi Marchionni, Charles G. Drake, Tamara Lotan, Angelo M. De Marzo, Justin Hwang, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00392-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41525-024-00392-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Patients with prostate cancer (PC) generally do not respond favorably to immune checkpoint inhibitors, which may be due to a low abundance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes even when mutational load is high. Here, we identified a patient who presented with high-grade primary prostate cancer with two adjacent tumor nodules. While both nodules were mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd), exhibited pathogenic <i>MSH2</i> and <i>MSH6</i> alterations, had a high tumor mutational burden (TMB), and demonstrated high microsatellite instability (MSI), they had markedly distinct immune phenotypes. The first displayed a dense infiltrate of lymphocytes (“hot nodule”), while the second displayed significantly fewer infiltrating lymphocytes (“cold nodule”). Whole-exome DNA analysis found that both nodules shared many identical mutations, indicating that they were derived from a single clone. However, the cold nodule appeared to be sub-clonal relative to the hot nodule, suggesting divergent evolution of the cold nodule from the hot nodule. Whole-transcriptome RNA analysis found that the cold nodule demonstrated lower expression of genes related to antigen presentation (HLA) and, paradoxically, classical tumor immune tolerance markers such as PD-L1 (<i>CD274</i>) and CTLA-4. Immune cell deconvolution suggested that the hot nodule was enriched not only in CD8+ and CD4 + T lymphocytes, but also in M1 macrophages, activated NK cells, and γδ T cells compared to the cold nodule. This case highlights that MMRd/TMB-high PC can evolve to minimize an anti-tumor immune response, and nominates downregulation of antigen presentation machinery (HLA loss) as a potential mechanism of adaptive immune evasion in PC.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139514901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whole genome sequencing enables new genetic diagnosis for inherited retinal diseases by identifying pathogenic variants","authors":"Xubing Liu, Fangyuan Hu, Daowei Zhang, Zhe Li, Jianquan He, Shenghai Zhang, Zhenguo Wang, Yingke Zhao, Jiawen Wu, Chen Liu, Chenchen Li, Xin Li, Jihong Wu","doi":"10.1038/s41525-024-00391-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41525-024-00391-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a group of common primary retinal degenerative disorders. Conventional genetic testing strategies, such as panel-based sequencing and whole exome sequencing (WES), can only elucidate the genetic etiology in approximately 60% of IRD patients. Studies have suggested that unsolved IRD cases could be attributed to previously undetected structural variants (SVs) and intronic variants in IRD-related genes. The aim of our study was to obtain a definitive genetic diagnosis by employing whole genome sequencing (WGS) in IRD cases where the causative genes were inconclusive following an initial screening by panel sequencing. A total of 271 unresolved IRD patients and their available family members (<i>n</i> = 646) were screened using WGS to identify pathogenic SVs and intronic variants in 792 known ocular disease genes. Overall, 13% (34/271) of IRD patients received a confirmed genetic diagnosis, among which 7% were exclusively attributed to SVs, 4% to a combination of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and SVs while another 2% were linked to intronic variants. 22 SVs, 3 deep-intronic variants, and 2 non-canonical splice-site variants across 14 IRD genes were identified in the entire cohort. Notably, all of these detected SVs and intronic variants were novel pathogenic variants. Among those, 74% (20/27) of variants were found in genes causally linked to Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), with the gene <i>EYS</i> being the most frequently affected by SVs. The identification of SVs and intronic variants through WGS enhances the genetic diagnostic yield of IRDs and broadens the mutational spectrum of known IRD-associated genes.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139507133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gonench Kilich, Kelly Hassey, Edward M Behrens, Marni Falk, Adeline Vanderver, Daniel J Rader, Patrick J Cahill, Anna Raper, Zhe Zhang, Dawn Westerfer, Tanaya Jadhav, Laura Conlin, Kosuke Izumi, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Kathleen E Sullivan
{"title":"Kagami Ogata syndrome: a small deletion refines critical region for imprinting.","authors":"Gonench Kilich, Kelly Hassey, Edward M Behrens, Marni Falk, Adeline Vanderver, Daniel J Rader, Patrick J Cahill, Anna Raper, Zhe Zhang, Dawn Westerfer, Tanaya Jadhav, Laura Conlin, Kosuke Izumi, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Kathleen E Sullivan","doi":"10.1038/s41525-023-00389-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-023-00389-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Kagami-Ogata syndrome is a rare imprinting disorder and its phenotypic overlap with multiple different etiologies hampers diagnosis. Genetic etiologies include paternal uniparental isodisomy (upd(14)pat), maternal allele deletions of differentially methylated regions (DMR) in 14q32.2 or pure primary epimutations. We report a patient with Kagami-Ogata syndrome and an atypical diagnostic odyssey with several negative standard-of-care genetic tests followed by epigenetic testing using methylation microarray and a targeted analysis of whole-genome sequencing to reveal a 203 bp deletion involving the MEG3 transcript and MEG3:TSS-DMR. Long-read sequencing enabled the simultaneous detection of the deletion, phasing, and biallelic hypermethylation of the MEG3:TSS-DMR region in a single assay. This case highlights the challenges in the sequential genetic testing paradigm, the utility of long-read sequencing as a single comprehensive diagnostic assay, and the smallest reported deletion causing Kagami-Ogata syndrome allowing important insights into the mechanism of imprinting effects at this locus.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10784583/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139425200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Timothy H Ciesielski, Giorgio Sirugo, Sudha K Iyengar, Scott M Williams
{"title":"Characterizing the pathogenicity of genetic variants: the consequences of context.","authors":"Timothy H Ciesielski, Giorgio Sirugo, Sudha K Iyengar, Scott M Williams","doi":"10.1038/s41525-023-00386-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-023-00386-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10776585/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139403820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles H Jones, John R Androsavich, Nina So, Matthew P Jenkins, Derek MacCormack, Andrew Prigodich, Verna Welch, Jane M True, Mikael Dolsten
{"title":"Breaking the mold with RNA-a \"RNAissance\" of life science.","authors":"Charles H Jones, John R Androsavich, Nina So, Matthew P Jenkins, Derek MacCormack, Andrew Prigodich, Verna Welch, Jane M True, Mikael Dolsten","doi":"10.1038/s41525-023-00387-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41525-023-00387-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past decade, RNA therapeutics have gone from being a promising concept to one of the most exciting frontiers in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. The field is now entering what many call a renaissance or \"RNAissance\" which is being fueled by advances in genetic engineering and delivery systems to take on more ambitious development efforts. However, this renaissance is occurring at an unprecedented pace, which will require a different way of thinking if the field is to live up to its full potential. Recognizing this need, this article will provide a forward-looking perspective on the field of RNA medical products and the potential long-term innovations and policy shifts enabled by this revolutionary and game-changing technological platform.</p>","PeriodicalId":19273,"journal":{"name":"NPJ Genomic Medicine","volume":"9 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10776758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139403819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}