Table 1 Diagnosis rate of each subgroup of pretest phenotype

From: Proband-only medical exome sequencing as a cost-effective first-tier genetic diagnostic test for patients without prior molecular tests and clinical diagnosis in a developing country: the China experience

Disease subgroups

Patients

Yield

Skin diseases

5/12

41.67%

 Albinism

2/2

 

 Café-au-lait spots

1/5

 

 Other

2/5

 

Nephrotic diseases

23/57

40.35%

 Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

1/3

 

 Hematuria

2/2

 

 Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

2/2

 

 Nephrotic syndrome

1/16

 

 Polycystic kidney

0/3

 

 Proteinuria

2/3

 

 Renal glucosuria

1/2

 

 Renal tubular acidosis

4/4

 

 Other

10/22

 

Skeletal diseases

11/29

37.93%

Endocrine diseases and inborn errors of metabolism

40/106

37.74%

 Central precocious puberty

0/2

 

 Diabetes mellitus

1/17

 

 Hyperlipidemia

2/2

 

 Hypoglycemia

3/7

 

 Hypoparathyroidism

1/4

 

 Mucopolysaccharidosis

2/6

 

 Other

31/68

 

Gastroenteric disease

7/21

33.33%

 Abnormal liver function

1/2

 

 Hepatitis syndrome/jaundice

1/7

 

 Other

5/12

 

Short stature

30/91

32.97%

Multiple malformation

28/91

30.77%

Hematopathy and immune diseases

23/77

29.87%

 Agammaglobulinemia

1/2

 

 Anemia

3/8

 

 Autoimmune disease

0/9

 

 Hepatosplenomegaly

1/3

 

 Immunodeficiency

6/15

 

 Periodic fever

2/5

 

 Other

10/35

 

Heart and cardiovascular diseases

86/323

26.62%

 Marfan syndrome

10/25

 

 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

15/39

 

 Dilated cardiomyopathy

36/173

 

 Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

0/5

 

 Long QT syndrome

9/16

 

 Pulmonary arterial hypertension

5/18

 

 Tachycardia

0/5

 

 Other

11/42

 

Neuromuscular diseases

69/266

25.94%

 Cerebral/cerebellar dysplasia

1/12

 

 Developmental delay

9/21

 

 Encephalopathy

2/9

 

 Infantile spasms

1/4

 

 Intellectual delay

5/19

 

 Myopathy

10/46

 

 Seizure/epilepsy

23/73

 

 Other

18/82

 

Disorders of sex development

15/63

23.81%

 Ambiguous external genitalia

5/7

 

 Gonadal dysplasia

1/11

 

 Male pseudohermaphroditism

2/4

 

 Micropenis

5/19

 

 Other

2/22

 

Respiratory diseases

4/20

20.00%

 Bronchiectasia

0/7

 

 Pneumonia

1/6

 

 Other

3/7

 

Neoplasm

1/5

20.00%

Other rare genetic diseases

39/162

24.07%

Total

381/1,323

28.79%