May 25, 2021Open Access

An update on the neurological short tandem repeat expansion disorders and the emergence of long-read sequencing diagnostics

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Abstract

We anticipate that long-read sequencing will rapidly transform the detection of short tandem repeat expansion disorders for both clinical diagnosis and gene discovery.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8d188f39dfae3cad18086 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-021-01201-x

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