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ArticleExperimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)2025

Comprehensive identification of pathogenic tandem repeat expansions in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: advantages of long-read vs. short-read sequencing.

Eleonora Sabetta, Karin Rallmann, Jonas Bergquist, Pille Taba, Abigail L Pfaff, Bal Hari Poudel, Davide Ferrari, Massimo Locatelli, Sulev Kõks

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Eleonora SabettaIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Karin RallmannDepartment of Neurology, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia.
Jonas BergquistAnalytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry, Department of Chemistry - Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Pille TabaDepartment of Neurology, Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia.
Abigail L PfaffPerron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Perth, WA, Australia.
Bal Hari PoudelPersonalised Medicine Center, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia.
Davide FerrariScienze Chimiche della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale (SCVSA) Department, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Massimo LocatelliIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Sulev KõksPerron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Perth, WA, Australia.

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Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder presenting progressive weakness of the bulbar and extremity muscles, leading to a wide-ranging clinical phenotype. More than 30 genes have been associated to genetically inherited ALS yet, approximately 85%-90% of ALS cases are sporadic. Short tandem repeats expansions, have recently been found in clinically diagnosed ALS patients and are currently investigated as potential genetic biomarkers. In this paper we compare the investigation of pathological tandem repeat expansions on a group of ALS patients by comparing the standard short-read sequencing (SRS) technique with a long-read-sequencing (LRS) method which has recently become more accessible. Blood samples from 47 sporadic ALS cases were subjected to SRS by Illumina Whole Genome Sequencing. The genome-wide tandem repeat expansions were genotyped using GangSTR, while wANNOVAR was used for variant annotation. Uncertain cases were further explored using LRS. SRS identified pathological expansions in

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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisDNA Repeat ExpansionSequence Analysis, DNAAdultAgedFemaleHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMaleMiddle AgedWhole Genome Sequencinggenetic architecturelong-read sequencingneurodegenerative disordersshort-read sequencingsporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)tandem repeats

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PMCPMC12310560

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