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ArticleBlood advances2021

Specifications of the variant curation guidelines for ITGA2B/ITGB3: ClinGen Platelet Disorder Variant Curation Panel.

Justyne E Ross, Bing M Zhang, Kristy Lee, Shruthi Mohan, Brian R Branchford, Paul Bray, Stefanie N Dugan, Kathleen Freson, Paula G Heller, Walter H A Kahr and 9 more

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Article in Blood advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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19 authors.

Justyne E RossDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Bing M ZhangDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Kristy LeeDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Shruthi MohanDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Brian R BranchfordVersiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Paul BrayMolecular Medicine Program, Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Stefanie N DuganVersiti Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Kathleen FresonDepartment of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Paula G HellerDepartment of Hematology Research, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM) "Dr. A. Lanari" and.
Walter H A KahrDivision of Haematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Michele P LambertDivision of Hematology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
Lori Luchtman-JonesCancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Division of Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Minjie LuoDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Juliana Perez BoteroDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Matthew T RondinaDepartment of Internal Medicine.
Gabriella RyanDepartment of Scientific Affairs, American Society of Hematology, Washington, DC.
Sarah WestburySchool of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Wolfgang BergmeierDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics and.
Jorge Di PaolaDivision of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

Funding

The Clinical Genome Resource – Advancing genomic medicine through biocuration and expert assessment of genes and variants at scaleU24HG009650 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JONATHAN S BERG, Jessica Ezzell Hunter · 2021 to 2026
$30.0M
The Clinical Genome Resource - Expert Curation and EHR IntegrationU41HG009650 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BERG, JONATHAN S · 2017 to 2020
$13.3M
In vivo studies of megakaryocyte microRNAs regulating platelet number and integrin activationR01HL141424 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI BRAY, PAUL F. · 2018 to 2021
$2.5M
NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG009650NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG009650NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL141424
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate and consistent sequence variant interpretation is critical to the correct diagnosis and appropriate clinical management and counseling of patients with inherited genetic disorders. To minimize discrepancies in variant curation and classification among different clinical laboratories, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), along with the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), published standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants in 2015. Because the rules are not universally applicable to different genes or disorders, the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Platelet Disorder Expert Panel (PD-EP) has been tasked to make ACMG/AMP rule specifications for inherited platelet disorders. ITGA2B and ITGB3, the genes underlying autosomal recessive Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT), were selected as the pilot genes for specification. Eight types of evidence covering clinical phenotype, functional data, and computational/population data were evaluated in the context of GT by the ClinGen PD-EP. The preliminary specifications were validated with 70 pilot ITGA2B/ITGB3 variants and further refined. In the final adapted criteria, gene- or disease-based specifications were made to 16 rules, including 7 with adjustable strength; no modification was made to 5 rules; and 7 rules were deemed not applicable to GT. Employing the GT-specific ACMG/AMP criteria to the pilot variants resulted in a reduction of variants classified with unknown significance from 29% to 20%. The overall concordance with the initial expert assertions was 71%. These adapted criteria will serve as guidelines for GT-related variant interpretation to increase specificity and consistency across laboratories and allow for better clinical integration of genetic knowledge into patient care.

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Genetic TestingGenome, HumanGenetic VariationGenomicsHumansIntegrin alpha2Integrin beta3PhenotypeUnited StatesIntegrin alpha2Integrin beta3ITGA2B protein, humanITGB3 protein, human

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PMID33496739
PMCPMC7839359

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