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Consultation informs strategies to improve functional evidence use in variant classification

2024-12-06 genetic and genomic medicine Title + abstract only
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To determine if a variant identified by diagnostic genetic testing is causal for disease, applied genetics professionals evaluate all available evidence to assign a clinical classification. Experimental assay data can provide strong functional evidence for or against pathogenicity in variant classification, but appears to be underutilised. We surveyed genetic diagnostic professionals in Australasia to assess their application of functional evidence in clinical practice. Results indicated that su...

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