Andrew Fleming, Miranda Galey, Lizi Briggs, Matthew Edwards, Claire Hogg, Shibu John, Sam Wilkinson, Ellie Quinn, Ranjit Rai, Tom Burgoyne, Andy Rogers, Mitali P Patel, Paul Griffin, Steven Muller, Siobhan B Carr, Michael R Loebinger, Jane S Lucas, Anand Shah, Ricardo Jose, Hannah M Mitchison, Amelia Shoemark, Danny E Miller, Deborah J Morris-Rosendahl
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a disorder of the motile cilia, is now recognised as an underdiagnosed cause of bronchiectasis. Accurate PCD diagnosis comprises clinical assessment, analysis of cilia and the identification of biallelic variants in one of 50 known PCD-related genes, including HYDIN. HYDIN-related PCD is underdiagnosed due to the presence of a pseudogene, HYDIN2, with 98% sequence homology to HYDIN. This presents a significant challenge for Short-Read Next Generation Sequencing (SR-NGS) and analysis, and many diagnostic PCD gene panels do not include HYDIN...
April 11, 2024: European Journal of Human Genetics: EJHG