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Importance of adopting standardized MANE transcripts in clinical reporting

  • Caroline F. Wright
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    Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, United Kingdom
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  • David R. FitzPatrick
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    MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetic and Cancer, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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  • James S. Ware
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    National Heart and Lung Institute and MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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  • Heidi L. Rehm
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    Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Heidi L. Rehm, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Simches Research Building, CPZN-5-812, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114
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    Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
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  • Helen V. Firth
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    Helen V. Firth, Department of Medical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals, Box 134, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom.
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    East Anglian Medical Genetics Service, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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Published:November 28, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2022.10.013
Importance of adopting standardized MANE transcripts in clinical reporting
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      Why use MANE Select and MANE Plus Clinical?
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        MANE Select provides a single default transcript per gene agreed internationally.
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        MANE Plus Clinical provides additional transcripts for use in a subset of genes in which more than one transcript is known to be clinically important (eg, tissue-specific transcripts).
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        Transcripts are selected on the basis of the strongest available biological evidence.
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        The transcripts in these data sets have 1:1 correlation with the GRCh38 human reference genome sequence.
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        These data sets facilitate accurate and unambiguous reporting and communication between clinicians, scientists and patients.

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      December 2, 2022

      December 2022: Standardizing variant annotation

      One of the challenges in the attempt to standardize variant research, and understand whether a new variant is benign or pathogenic, arises from the fact that the human genome has largely been annotated by two major groups, and they have two different datasets of transcripts: The NCBI, which is based largely in the US, produced the RefSeq database of transcripts, and the EMBL-EBI in Europe produced the Ensembl/GENCODE set of transcripts. In April 2022, a team of researchers introduced the MANE project, or The Matched Annotation from the NCBI and EMBL-EBI , as an attempt to harmonize gene and transcript annotation. While online genome browsers quickly made the change to MANE, not everyone has yet made the switch, as addressed in a recent commentary in Genetics in Medicine. One of the commentary’s authors, Caroline Wright, PhD, professor of genomic medicine at the University of Exeter, joined GenePod to discuss the importance of MANE and its path forward.

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      Publication history

      Published online: November 28, 2022
      Accepted: October 25, 2022
      Received in revised form: October 24, 2022
      Received: July 4, 2022

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2022.10.013

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