Estimated Filtration: The Continued Need for Expert Classification of Genetic Variants

Rasouly and colleagues' study shows that the filters and other automated components of current bioinformatics pipelines alone are insufficient to make a clinically valid determination of whether a genetic variant is disease-causing. The editorialist discusses the findings and the improvements to automated variant interpretation that are needed before entire genomes can be interpreted at scale with clinical validity.

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