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Combining newborn metabolic and DNA analysis for second- tier testing of methylmalonic acidemia

**Purpose:** Improved second-tier tools are needed to reduce false- positive outcomes in newborn screening (NBS) for inborn metabolic disorders on the Recommended Universal Screening Panel (RUSP). **Methods:** We designed an assay for multiplex …

FamSeq: a variant calling program for family-based sequencing data using graphics processing units

Various algorithms have been developed for variant calling using next-generation sequencing data, and various methods have been applied to reduce the associated false positive and false negative rates. Few variant calling programs, however, utilize …

Rare variant detection using family-based sequencing analysis

Next-generation sequencing is revolutionizing genomic analysis, but this analysis can be compromised by high rates of missing true variants. To develop a robust statistical method capable of identifying variants that would otherwise not be called, we …