Exome sequencing strategy is promising for finding novel mutations of human monogenic disorders. However, pinpointing the casual mutation in a small number of samples is still a big challenge. Here, we propose a three-level filtration and prioritization framework to identify the casual mutation(s) in exome sequencing studies. This efficient and comprehensive framework successfully narrowed down...

The report by Stone et al in this issue (available at www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(17)30460-8/fulltext;) is a timely reminder of the revolution under way in molecular genetic testing for inherited retinal disease (IRD). The new approach to testing involves the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS), a term used to describe a number of different technologies that use a common strategy ...