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
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...
February 19, 2024: NPJ Genomic Medicine