Functional Studies for Interpreting Genetic Variants Associated with Genetic Disorders

Dear Colleagues,

The new high performant sequencing techniques have generated a lot of data about human genome variation. In terms of pathogenicity or benignity, the classification of all gene variants is an important future goal for medical genetics and relevant efforts should be pursued to interpret gene variants associated with genetic disorders. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) established guidelines for variant interpretation to help variant classification. Variant type, familial inheritance, variant frequency, and prediction tools are essential to assess a gene variant classification. One of the strong criteria included in the ACMG guidelines is based on the characterisation of gene variants by functional studies. Therefore, studies reporting experimental evidence that helps the interpretation and classification of gene variants are critical.

This Special Issue aims to collect research articles and reviews based on functional studies that support the classification of germline gene variants detected in human genetic diseases.

Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Iuliano
Guest Editor

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