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Optical genome mapping (OGM) has recently emerged as a new technology in the clinical cytogenomics laboratories. This methodology has the ability to detect balanced and unbalanced structural rearrangements using ultra-high molecular weight DNA. This article discusses the uses of this new technology in both constitutional and somatic settings, its advantages as well as opportunity for improvements. We reviewed the medical and scientific literature for methodology and current clinical uses of OGM. OGM is a recent addition to the methods used in cytogenomics laboratories and can detect a wide range of structural and copy number variations across a plethora of diseases. Clinical cytogenomics is an important laboratory specialty for which various technologies have been validated over the last several decades to improve detection of copy number and structural variations and their association to human disease. OGM has proven to be a powerful tool in the arsenal of clinical laboratories and provides a unified workflow for the detection of chromosomal aberrations across a wide range of diseases.
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