No. The referring physicians can continue to use paper-based forms to submit the clinical history and the lab can enter the clinical data into the integrated Genome-Phenome Analyzer. However, SimulConsult enables clinicians to submit a SimulConsult Patient Summary to the lab directly, saving additional time, and typically capturing the history with greater precision. This allows labs to leverage the fact that thousands of clinicians around the world are familiar with SimulConsult and use it in their clinical practice.

The integrated Genome-Phenome Analyzer reads “variant table” information resulting from the initial bioinformatics analysis, and imports the HGNC code for the gene, the severity of the variant, and the zygosity of the variant (heterozygous or homozygous). It is able to handle not only autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive diseases, but also other modes of inheritance (e.g., X-linked) and deal with complex situations such as compound heterozygosity and two pathogenic genes. It considers not only genetic diseases detectable on “next generation” sequence analysis, but also genetic diseases not well detected (e.g., trinucleotide repeats and large copy number variants), and nongenetic diseases.

Variant tables with tens of thousands of variants upload in a few seconds.

In addition to identifying known genetic diseases, the integrated Genome-Phenome Analyzer is also useful in gene discovery. Even if the condition is a new channelopathy or ciliopathy, for example, the suggestions in the differential diagnosis of many diseases in such categories provides hints of the type of disease to expect and has been useful in prioritizing gene candidates to study in greater detail.

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