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Optical Genome Mapping: A Revolutionary Tool for "Next Generation Cytogenomics Analysis" with a Broad Range of
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Optical Genome Mapping (OGM) has emerged as a very powerful technology to diagnose in a single step a large variety of chromosomal abnormalities with high accuracy, at an unprecedented resolution, and in a time- and cost-effective way. A few recent studies provided a proof-of-principle that OGM can replace traditional cytogenomic assays (karyotyping, FISH, and SNP-arrays) in constitutional studies and the evaluation of hematologic disorders. OGM not only identified abnormalities previously diagnosed by standard methods, it highlighted the structural complexity of some rearrangements and uncovered novel findings with potential diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic significance. While OGM still seems to have some technical and diagnostic limitations that require fine-tuning and improvement, it has so far shown so many promising advantages that future routine use heralds a revolutionary era in next-generation cytogenomic analysis. Keywords: Optical Genome Mapping, cytogenetic diagnosis, chromosome abnormalities detection, cancer cytogenetics, constitutional chromosome aberrations, cytogenomic variation, structural variants (SVs), copy number variants (CNVs)
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