Table 1 Recent studies reporting a diagnostic yield for ES in heterogeneous pediatric patient populations

From: The cost and diagnostic yield of exome sequencing for children with suspected genetic disorders: a benchmarking study

Study

Diagnostic yield (Solo)

N

Diagnostic yield (Trio)

N

% Pediatric

% DD/ID

Country

Team-based variant interpretation

Yang et al.5

24.8%

250

  

89%

80%

USA

Yes

Iglesias et al.2

  

32.2%

115

79%

25%

USA

No

Lee et al.6

  

31.0%

410

86%

51%

USA

Yes

Redin et al.3

24.5%

106

  

83% (under 20 years old)

100%

France

No

Soden et al.7

  

39.0%

100

100%

52%

USA

No

Srivastava et al.8

  

41.0%

78

100%

N/A

USA

No

Yang et al.1

25.2%

2,000

  

88%

93%

USA

Yes

Farwell et al.9

20.6%

68

37.3%

220

84%

64%

USA

No

Valencia et al.10

  

30.0%

40

100%

48%

USA

Yes

Monroe et al.11

  

29.4%

17

100%

100%

USA

No

Nolan and Carlson 14

  

48.0%

50

100%

N/A

USA

No

Retterer et al.15

23.6%

542

31.0%

2,081

>50% (median = 6.8 years)

52%

USA

No

Sawyer et al.12

23.0%

207

  

100%

N/A

Canada

No

Baldridge et al.16

  

36.1%

155

95%

76%

USA

No

Evers et al.17

  

35.0%

60

100%

85%

Germany

No

Stark et al.13

44.4%a

27

  

100%

N/A

Australia

Yes

Trujillano et al.4

  

30.7%

1,000

82% (15 years or younger)

N/A

Multiple

No

Vissers et al.18

  

25.6%a

139

100%

78%

The Netherlands

No

 

Solo ES

 

Trio ES

     

Average =

26.6%

 

34.4%

     

Standard deviation =

8.0%

 

5.9%

     

Beta distribution parameters (alpha, beta)

(7.8, 21.6)

 

(21.8, 41.6)

     
  1. DD, developmental delay; ES, exome sequencing; ID, intellectual disability.
  2. aYield for last-resort ES in these parallel studies was calculated based on ES results for patients who were not diagnosed using standard testing.