{"id":723,"date":"2015-01-16T21:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/?p=723"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:14:45","slug":"mirtrios-an-integrated-pipeline-for-detection-of-de-novo-and-rare-inherited-mutations-from-trios-based-next-generation-sequencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/2015\/01\/16\/mirtrios-an-integrated-pipeline-for-detection-of-de-novo-and-rare-inherited-mutations-from-trios-based-next-generation-sequencing\/","title":{"rendered":"mirTrios: an integrated pipeline for detection of de novo and rare inherited mutations from trios-based next-generation sequencing (Contributed by Dr. Jinyu Wu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rapid advances of Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have greatly facilitated clinical genetic diagnosis of sporadic disease genome-widely. 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