Review of Diagnostic Yields Obtained on Clinical Prenatal WES Cases

PPC Poster (2025)

PMID

Publication AuthorsRobert Rigobello MS, CGC, Sydney Lau MS, CGC, Jason Chibuk MS, CGC, Hongzheng Dai PhD, FACMG, Liesbeth Vossaert PhD, FACMG, Linyan Meng PhD, FACMG, Christine Eng MD, Fan Xia PhD, FACMG

BACKGROUND

  • The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recommends whole exome sequencing (WES) as a first-tier test for pediatric findings with a suspected genetic bases
  • Prenatal WES captures variants that standard-of-care prenatal testing methods, such as karyotype and chromosomal microarray, would miss
  • Information on the diagnostic yield of prenatal WES is more limited, and provider familiarity with prenatal WES varies considerably
  • We describe a review of the diagnostic yield for a prenatal WES cohort tested through our laboratory
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