Whole Exome Sequencing, should be considered for:
- Complex presentations where multiple, non-overlapping features are involved
- Genetically heterogeneous disorders for which no genetic test is available, and/or
- Disorders with highly suspected genetic etiology but exhaustive targeted genetic testing did not reveal an answer
Genome-wide, SNP-based chromosomal microarrays, should be considered for children with:
- Developmental delays
- Intellectual disability
- Multiple congenital anomalies, and/or
- Autism spectrum disorders
Single and Multi-gene next generation sequencing disease panels for several paediatric disorders, including but not limited to:
Neurodevelopmental disorders, such as:
- Epilepsy
- Neuromuscular disease
- Angelman-like/Rett syndrome
- Kabuki syndrome
- Rubinstein Taybi syndrome
- Noonan syndrome
- Cornelia de Lange
- Neurofibromatosis
- CHARGE syndrome
Hearing Loss-related disorders, such as:
- Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss
- Alport syndrome
- Stickler syndrome
- Waardenburg syndrome
- Marshall syndrome
- Branchio-oto-renal syndrome
- Usher syndrome
- Perrault syndrome
Gastroenterology disorders, such as:
- Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease (VEO-IBD)
- Congenital diarrhea
- Cholestasis
- Pancreatitis
- Alagille syndrome
Pulmonary disorders, such as:
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Neonatal Respiratory distress
- Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Skeletal and connective tissue disorders, such as:
- Marfan syndrome
- Craniofacial disorders
- Craniosynostosis
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Connective tissue disorders
- Achondroplasia
Endocrinology disorders, such as:
- Monogenic diabetes
- Monogenic obesity
- Glycogen Storage disorders
- Ketotic hypoglycemia
- Short stature
- Hyperinsulinism
Immunology and rheumatology disorders, such as:
- Humoral dysfunction
- Severe combined Immunodeficiency
- Complement deficiency
- Auto-inflammatory disease
*All the above panels can include exon-level copy number analysis (exon-level microarrays)
Fragment analysis – including targeted testing for:
- Fragile X repeat expansion
- Prader willi/Angelman methylation
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
- DiGeorge syndrome (22q11.2)
- Williams syndrome
- Smith Magenis syndrome