Nature Genetics ( IF 31.7 ) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 , DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01836-1 Axel Schmidt 1 , Magdalena Danyel 2, 3 , Kathrin Grundmann 4 , Theresa Brunet 5 , Hannah Klinkhammer 6, 7 , Tzung-Chien Hsieh 6 , Hartmut Engels 1 , Sophia Peters 1 , Alexej Knaus 6 , Shahida Moosa 8 , Luisa Averdunk 9 , Felix Boschann 2, 3 , Henrike Lisa Sczakiel 2, 3 , Sarina Schwartzmann 2 , Martin Atta Mensah 2, 3 , Jean Tori Pantel 2, 10 , Manuel Holtgrewe 11 , Annemarie Bösch 12 , Claudia Weiß 12 , Natalie Weinhold 12 , Aude-Annick Suter 12 , Corinna Stoltenburg 12 , Julia Neugebauer 12 , Tillmann Kallinich 12 , Angela M Kaindl 13, 14, 15 , Susanne Holzhauer 12 , Christoph Bührer 12 , Philip Bufler 12 , Uwe Kornak 2 , Claus-Eric Ott 2 , Markus Schülke 2 , Hoa Huu Phuc Nguyen 16 , Sabine Hoffjan 16 , Corinna Grasemann 17 , Tobias Rothoeft 17 , Folke Brinkmann 17 , Nora Matar 17 , Sugirthan Sivalingam 1 , Claudia Perne 1 , Elisabeth Mangold 1 , Martina Kreiss 1 , Kirsten Cremer 1 , Regina C Betz 1 , Martin Mücke 18 , Lorenz Grigull 18 , Thomas Klockgether 19 , Isabel Spier 1 , André Heimbach 1 , Tim Bender 18 , Fabian Brand 6 , Christiane Stieber 18 , Alexandra Marzena Morawiec 18 , Pantelis Karakostas 20 , Valentin S Schäfer 20 , Sarah Bernsen 18 , Patrick Weydt 19 , Sergio Castro-Gomez 19 , Ahmad Aziz 19 , Marcus Grobe-Einsler 19 , Okka Kimmich 19 , Xenia Kobeleva 19 , Demet Önder 19 , Hellen Lesmann 1 , Sheetal Kumar 1 , Pawel Tacik 19 , Meghna Ahuja Basin 6 , Pietro Incardona 6 , Min Ae Lee-Kirsch 21, 22 , Reinhard Berner 21, 22 , Catharina Schuetz 21, 22 , Julia Körholz 21, 22 , Tanita Kretschmer 21, 22 , Nataliya Di Donato 21, 23 , Evelin Schröck 21, 23 , André Heinen 21, 22 , Ulrike Reuner 21, 24 , Amalia-Mihaela Hanßke 21 , Frank J Kaiser 25 , Eva Manka 26 , Martin Munteanu 25 , Alma Kuechler 25 , Kiewert Cordula 26 , Raphael Hirtz 26 , Elena Schlapakow 27 , Christian Schlein 28 , Jasmin Lisfeld 28 , Christian Kubisch 28, 29 , Theresia Herget 28 , Maja Hempel 28, 29, 30 , Christina Weiler-Normann 29, 31 , Kurt Ullrich 29 , Christoph Schramm 29, 31 , Cornelia Rudolph 29 , Franziska Rillig 29 , Maximilian Groffmann 29 , Ania Muntau 32 , Alexandra Tibelius 30 , Eva M C Schwaibold 30 , Christian P Schaaf 30 , Michal Zawada 30 , Lilian Kaufmann 30 , Katrin Hinderhofer 30 , Pamela M Okun 33 , Urania Kotzaeridou 33 , Georg F Hoffmann 33 , Daniela Choukair 33 , Markus Bettendorf 33 , Malte Spielmann 34 , Annekatrin Ripke 35 , Martje Pauly 36, 37 , Alexander Münchau 35, 38 , Katja Lohmann 39 , Irina Hüning 34 , Britta Hanker 40 , Tobias Bäumer 35, 38 , Rebecca Herzog 35, 36 , Yorck Hellenbroich 41 , Dominik S Westphal 5 , Tim Strom 5 , Reka Kovacs 5 , Korbinian M Riedhammer 5, 42 , Katharina Mayerhanser 5 , Elisabeth Graf 5 , Melanie Brugger 5 , Julia Hoefele 5 , Konrad Oexle 43 , Nazanin Mirza-Schreiber 43 , Riccardo Berutti 43 , Ulrich Schatz 5 , Martin Krenn 5, 44 , Christine Makowski 45 , Heike Weigand 46 , Sebastian Schröder 46 , Meino Rohlfs 46 , Katharina Vill 46 , Fabian Hauck 46 , Ingo Borggraefe 46 , Wolfgang Müller-Felber 46 , Ingo Kurth 10 , Miriam Elbracht 10 , Cordula Knopp 10 , Matthias Begemann 10 , Florian Kraft 10 , Johannes R Lemke 47, 48 , Julia Hentschel 47 , Konrad Platzer 47 , Vincent Strehlow 47 , Rami Abou Jamra 47 , Martin Kehrer 4 , German Demidov 4 , Stefanie Beck-Wödl 4 , Holm Graessner 49 , Marc Sturm 4 , Lena Zeltner 49 , Ludger J Schöls 50 , Janine Magg 49 , Andrea Bevot 51 , Christiane Kehrer 51 , Nadja Kaiser 51 , Ernest Turro 52 , Denise Horn 2 , Annette Grüters-Kieslich 53 , Christoph Klein 46 , Stefan Mundlos 2 , Markus Nöthen 1 , Olaf Riess 4 , Thomas Meitinger 5 , Heiko Krude 53 , Peter M Krawitz 6 , Tobias Haack 4 , Nadja Ehmke 2, 3 , Matias Wagner 5, 43, 46
Individuals with ultrarare disorders pose a structural challenge for healthcare systems since expert clinical knowledge is required to establish diagnoses. In TRANSLATE NAMSE, a 3-year prospective study, we evaluated a novel diagnostic concept based on multidisciplinary expertise in Germany. Here we present the systematic investigation of the phenotypic and molecular genetic data of 1,577 patients who had undergone exome sequencing and were partially analyzed with next-generation phenotyping approaches. Molecular genetic diagnoses were established in 32% of the patients totaling 370 distinct molecular genetic causes, most with prevalence below 1:50,000. During the diagnostic process, 34 novel and 23 candidate genotype–phenotype associations were identified, mainly in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. Sequencing data of the subcohort that consented to computer-assisted analysis of their facial images with GestaltMatcher could be prioritized more efficiently compared with approaches based solely on clinical features and molecular scores. Our study demonstrates the synergy of using next-generation sequencing and phenotyping for diagnosing ultrarare diseases in routine healthcare and discovering novel etiologies by multidisciplinary teams.
中文翻译:
将下一代表型分析纳入国家框架中,用于治疗极罕见疾病,可改善遗传诊断并产生新的分子发现
患有极其罕见疾病的个体对医疗保健系统构成了结构性挑战,因为需要专业的临床知识来建立诊断。在一项为期 3 年的前瞻性研究 TRANSLATE NAMSE 中,我们评估了基于德国多学科专业知识的新颖诊断概念。在这里,我们对 1,577 名患者的表型和分子遗传学数据进行了系统研究,这些患者接受了外显子组测序,并使用下一代表型分析方法进行了部分分析。 32% 的患者进行了分子遗传学诊断,涉及 370 种不同的分子遗传学原因,大多数患病率低于 1:50,000。在诊断过程中,发现了 34 个新的和 23 个候选的基因型-表型关联,主要发生在患有神经发育障碍的个体中。与仅基于临床特征和分子评分的方法相比,同意使用 GestaltMatcher 对其面部图像进行计算机辅助分析的子队列的测序数据可以更有效地进行优先排序。我们的研究证明了使用下一代测序和表型分析在常规医疗保健中诊断极罕见疾病以及多学科团队发现新病因的协同作用。