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However, there are no publicly available tools for GRCh38-aligned data from panel or exome sequencing assays which continue to be used as first line tests for neuromuscular disorders. This deficiency creates a critical gap in our ability to diagnose SMA in large existing rare disease cohorts, as well as newly sequenced exome and panel datasets. We therefore developed and extensively validated a new tool - SMA Finder - that can diagnose SMA not only in genome, but also exome and panel sequencing samples aligned to GRCh37, GRCh38, or T2T-CHM13. It works by evaluating aligned reads that overlap the c.840 position of\n                  <jats:italic>SMN1<\/jats:italic>\n                  and\n                  <jats:italic>SMN2<\/jats:italic>\n                  in order to detect the most common molecular causes of SMA. We applied SMA Finder to 16,626 exomes and 3,911 genomes from heterogeneous rare disease cohorts sequenced at the Broad Institute Center for Mendelian Genomics as well as 1,157 exomes and 8,762 panel sequencing samples from Tartu University Hospital. SMA Finder correctly identified all 16 known SMA cases and reported nine novel diagnoses which have since been confirmed by clinical testing, with another four novel diagnoses undergoing validation. Notably, out of the 29 total SMA positive cases, 23 had an initial clinical diagnosis of muscular dystrophy, congenital myasthenic syndrome, or myopathy. This underscored the frequency with which SMA can be misdiagnosed as other neuromuscular disorders and confirmed the utility of using SMA Finder to reanalyze phenotypically diverse neuromuscular disease cohorts. Finally, we evaluated SMA Finder on 198,868 individuals that had both exome and genome sequencing data within the UK Biobank (UKBB) and found that SMA Finder\u2019s overall false positive rate was less than 1 \/ 200,000 exome samples, and its positive predictive value (PPV) was 97%. We also observed 100% concordance between UKBB exome and genome calls. This analysis showed that, even though it is located within a segmental duplication, the most common causal variant for SMA can be detected with comparable accuracy to monogenic disease variants in non-repetitive regions. Additionally, the high PPV demonstrated by SMA Finder, the existence of treatment options for SMA in which early diagnosis is imperative for therapeutic benefit, as well as widespread availability of clinical confirmatory testing for SMA, warrants the addition of\n                  <jats:italic>SMN1<\/jats:italic>\n                  to the ACMG list of genes with reportable secondary findings after genome and exome sequencing.\n                <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1101\/2024.02.11.24302646","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,13]],"date-time":"2024-02-13T14:50:11Z","timestamp":1707835811000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Diagnosing missed cases of spinal muscular atrophy in genome, exome, and panel sequencing 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