EM-mosaic detects mosaic point mutations that contribute to congenital heart disease
Hsieh A, Morton SU, Willcox JAL, Gorham JM, Tai AC, Qi H, DePalma S, McKean D, Griffin E, Manheimer KB, Bernstein D, Kim RW, Newburger JW, Porter GA, Srivastava D, Tristani-Firouzi M, Brueckner M, Lifton RP, Goldmuntz E, Gelb BD, Chung WK, Seidman CE, Seidman JG, Shen Y. EM-mosaic detects mosaic point mutations that contribute to congenital heart disease. Genome Medicine 2020, 12: 42. PMID: 32349777, PMCID: PMC7189690, DOI: 10.1186/s13073-020-00738-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCongenital heart diseaseHigher allele fractionHeart diseaseCardiac tissueMosaic variantsAllele fractionBlood DNAHigh variant allele fractionSomatic mosaic variantsVariant allele fractionProband-parent triosCardiac malformationsOocyte fertilizationBloodHeart tissueBenign variantsMosaic mutationsExome sequencesTissue DNACardiovascular tissuesGenetic mutationsCHD probandsTrue frequencyCohortTissue