Western Bioinformatics Research Seminar Series

In person Room#: MSB-105

Zoom link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/91328965656

Presentation Title:

Publishing Functionally-Validated Sequence Variants at Scale in the ClinVar Database at the US National Institutes of Health: Our Experience

Speaker Name: Peter K. Rogan, Ph.D

  • Professor Emeritus (Biochemistry)
  • Former Canada Research Chair in Genome Bioinformatics
  • Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
  • University of Western Ontario
  • President, CytoGnomix Inc.

Learning objectives:

  • Introduce ClinVar and it's role in interpreting gene variants from next generation genome sequencing of patients with clinical diagnoses.
  • Learn about a new type of submission of variants with functional data supporting a pathological role.
  • Unforeseen challenges in submitting a peer-reviewed, large database of mRNA splicing mutations to ClinVar.
  • Integrate evidence based functional data with ACMG/AMP criteria for variant pathogenicity from previous submissions and implications.