Magdaléna Neřoldová, Elżbieta Ciara, Janka Slatinská, Soňa Fraňková, Petra Lišková, Radana Kotalová, Janka Globinovská, Markéta Šafaříková, Lucie Pfeiferová, Hana Zůnová, Lenka Mrázová, Viktor Stránecký, Alena Vrbacká, Ondřej Fabián, Eva Sticová, Daniela Skanderová, Jan Šperl, Marta Kalousová, Tomáš Zima, Milan Macek, Joanna Pawlowska, A S Knisely, Stanislav Kmoch, Milan Jirsa
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Gene defects contribute to the aetiology of intrahepatic cholestasis. We aimed to explore the outcome of whole-exome sequencing (WES) in a cohort of 51 patients with this diagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Both paediatric (n = 33) and adult (n = 18) patients with cholestatic liver disease of unknown aetiology were eligible. WES was used for reassessment of 34 patients (23 children) without diagnostic genotypes in ABCB11, ATP8B1, ABCB4 or JAG1 demonstrable by previous Sanger sequencing, and for primary assessment of additional 17 patients (10 children)...
2023: PloS One