The First Child Saved By DNA Sequencing

Since he was a toddler, six-year-old Nicholas Volker's intestine had been dangerously inflamed, necessitating a hundred surgeries including the removal of his colon. No one knew the cause, but it seemed certain that the boy was dying. In a desperate attempt to figure out what was wrong, doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin did something desperate and unproven: they sequenced his DNA. The do

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診断・治療方針の決定プロセスで Exome が役に立った、という初めての報告 // このまま根付くことはないだろう過渡期の姿ではあるし、宣伝としての役割も大きそうだけど素晴らしい