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Brandon J. Cushman

Mass General Brigham

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Organism:human· 5 Approach:statistical model· 5 Research Focus:database / resource· 4 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 3 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 3 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1

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Disease-specific ACMG/AMP guidelines improve sequence variant interpretation for hearing loss

Mayher J. Patel, Marina T. DiStefano, Andrea M. Oza, Madeline Y. Hughes, Emma H. Wilcox, Sarah E. Hemphill, Brandon J. Cushman, Andrew R. Grant, Rebecca K. Siegert, Jun Shen, Alex Chapin, Nicole J. Boczek, Lisa A. Schimmenti, Kiyomitsu Nara, Margaret A. Kenna, , Kejian Zhang

The paper curates 157 variants in hearing loss genes using disease-specific ACMG/AMP guidelines, resolving 69% of discordant variants and 24% of VUS variants into clear classifications.

Genetics in Medicine · Jul 6, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine

ClinGen Expert Clinical Validity Curation of 164 Hearing Loss Gene-Disease Pairs

Marina T. DiStefano, Sarah E. Hemphill, Andrea M. Oza, Rebecca K. Siegert, Andrew R. Grant, Madeline Y. Hughes, Brandon J. Cushman, Héla Azaiez, Kevin T. A. Booth, Alex Chapin, Hatice Duzkale, Tatsuo Matsunaga, Jun Shen, Wenying Zhang, Margaret A. Kenna, , Keijan Zhang

The paper curates 164 gene-disease pairs for hearing loss, classifying their clinical validity to improve genetic testing accuracy.

Genetics in Medicine · Mar 20, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics

Expert Specification of the ACMG/AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines for Genetic Hearing Loss

Andrea M. Oza, Marina T. DiStefano, Sarah E. Hemphill, Brandon J. Cushman, Andrew R. Grant, Rebecca K. Siegert, Jun Shen, Alex Chapin, Nicole J. Boczek, Lisa A. Schimmenti, Jaclyn B. Murry, Linda Hasadsri, Kiyomitsu Nara, Margaret A. Kenna, Kevin T. A. Booth, , Ahmad N. Abou Tayoun

The paper specifies ACMG/AMP variant interpretation guidelines for genetic hearing loss, updating and validating rules through expert curation of 51 variants.

Human Mutation · Oct 11, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics

Assessing the Gene-Disease Association of 19 Genes with the RASopathies using the ClinGen Gene Curation Framework

Andrew R. Grant, Brandon J. Cushman, Hélène Cavé, Mitchell W. Dillon, Bruce D. Gelb, Karen Webster Gripp, Jennifer A. Lee, Heather Mason‐Suares, Katherine A. Rauen, Marco Tartaglia, Lisa M. Vincent, Martin Zenker

The paper curates and scores gene-disease associations for 19 genes related to RASopathies using the ClinGen framework, classifying their associations as definitive, strong, moderate, limited, disputed, or no evidence.

Human Mutation · Oct 11, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics

Curating clinically relevant transcripts for the interpretation of sequence variants

Marina T. DiStefano, Sarah E. Hemphill, Brandon J. Cushman, Mark Bowser, Elizabeth Duffy Hynes, Andrew R. Grant, Rebecca K. Siegert, Andrea M. Oza, Michael Gonzalez, Sami Samir Amr, Heidi L. Rehm, Ahmad N. Abou Tayoun

The paper curates clinically relevant transcripts for 109 hearing loss-associated genes to improve variant interpretation by classifying exons based on expression, variant frequency, and sequencing quality.

Journal of Molecular Diagnostics · Aug 7, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics