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Birgit Funke

Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Verified email at mssm.edu
Cited by 13573

[HTML][HTML] ACMG clinical laboratory standards for next-generation sequencing

…, KK Brown, JL Deignan, MJ Friez, BH Funke… - Genetics in …, 2013 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing technologies have been and continue to be deployed in clinical
laboratories, enabling rapid transformations in genomic medicine. These technologies …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic misdiagnoses and the potential for health disparities

AK Manrai, BH Funke, HL Rehm… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background For more than a decade, risk stratification for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has
been enhanced by targeted genetic testing. Using sequencing results, clinicians routinely …

[HTML][HTML] Reassessment of Mendelian gene pathogenicity using 7,855 cardiomyopathy cases and 60,706 reference samples

R Walsh, KL Thomson, JS Ware, BH Funke… - Genetics in …, 2017 - nature.com
Purpose: The accurate interpretation of variation in Mendelian disease genes has lagged
behind data generation as sequencing has become increasingly accessible. Ongoing large …

Assuring the quality of next-generation sequencing in clinical laboratory practice

…, S Das, DH Farkas, MJ Ferber, BH Funke… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We direct your readers' attention to the principles and guidelines (Supplementary Guidelines)
developed by the Next-generation Sequencing: Standardization of Clinical Testing (Nex-…

[HTML][HTML] Results of clinical genetic testing of 2,912 probands with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: expanded panels offer limited additional sensitivity

AA Alfares, MA Kelly, G McDermott, BH Funke… - Genetics in …, 2015 - nature.com
Purpose: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is caused primarily by pathogenic variants in
genes encoding sarcomere proteins. We report genetic testing results for HCM in 2,912 …

[HTML][HTML] The landscape of genetic variation in dilated cardiomyopathy as surveyed by clinical DNA sequencing

…, ET White, HL Rehm, M Lebo, BH Funke - Genetics in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Dilated cardiomyopathy is characterized by substantial locus, allelic, and clinical
heterogeneity that necessitates testing of many genes across clinically overlapping diseases. …

[HTML][HTML] Inherited cardiomyopathies: molecular genetics and clinical genetic testing in the postgenomic era

…, MA Kelly, HL Rehm, NK Lakdawala, BH Funke - The Journal of Molecular …, 2013 - Elsevier
Inherited cardiomyopathies include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy,
arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, left ventricular noncompaction, and …

Genetic testing for dilated cardiomyopathy in clinical practice

NK Lakdawala, BH Funke, S Baxter, AL Cirino… - Journal of cardiac …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Familial involvement is common in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and >40
genes have been implicated in causing disease. However, the role of genetic testing in …

Good laboratory practice for clinical next-generation sequencing informatics pipelines

…, DP Bick, C Da Silva, DP Dimmock, BH Funke… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We report principles and guidelines (Supplementary Note) that were developed by the Next-Generation
Sequencing: Standardization of Clinical Testing II (Nex-StoCT II) informatics …

Dilated cardiomyopathy

…, JR Winterfield, BH Funke - Circulation: Arrhythmia …, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and
heart failure (HF) and is the leading indication for cardiac transplantation in children and adults …