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However, due to its novelty, little experience with OGM is available to infer best practices for its application or to clarify which features cannot be detected. In this study, we used the Saphyr system (Bionano Genomics, San Diego, CA, USA), to explore its capabilities in human genetic diagnostics. To this end, we tested 14 DNA samples to confirm a total of 14 different structural or numerical chromosomal variants originally detected by other means, namely, deletions, duplications, inversions, trisomies, and a translocation. Overall, 12 variants could be confirmed; one deletion and one inversion could not. The prerequisites for detection of similar variants were explored by reviewing the OGM data of 54 samples analyzed in our laboratory. Limitations, some owing to the novelty of the method and some inherent to it, were described. 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