An NHS hospital has begun decoding all the genes of individual patients, 10 years after the first human genome sequence was published. London's Royal Brompton Hospital said the project would give doctors a better understanding of the inherited factors that help trigger heart disease. The research involves sequencing all 22,000 genes found in the human genome in 10,000 patients. It heralds more per
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