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Feasibility of ultra-rapid exome sequencing in critically ill infants and children with suspected monogenic conditions in the Australian public healthcare system

JAMA Jul 01, 2020

Australian Genomics Health Alliance Acute Care Flagship, et al. - The performance of a multicenter network for ultra-rapid genomic diagnosis in a public health care system was prospectively evaluated via performing a multisite descriptive feasibility study including 12 Australian hospitals and 2 laboratories. Ultra-rapid genomic testing was performed on 108 critically ill infants and children with suspected monogenic conditions. These cases had median age of 28 days (range, 0 days to 17 years); 34% of them were female; and 57% were from neonatal intensive care units, 33% were from pediatric intensive care units, and 9% were from other hospital wards. Among these cases, the mean time to genomic test report was 3.3 days and the molecular diagnostic yield was 51%. The ultra-rapid exome sequencing result was identified influencing clinical management in 42 of 55 patients (76%) with a molecular diagnosis and 6 of 53 patients (11%) without a molecular diagnosis. Findings support the feasibility of performing ultra-rapid genomic testing in a public setting for critically ill pediatric patients with suspected monogenic conditions in Australia.

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