pediatric disease
Genetic Factors May Help Explain Link Between Screen Time, Psychiatric Problems in Children
With data for nearly 4,300 children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, researchers uncovered genetic confounding between screen time and psychiatric traits.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Fabric Genomics to Jointly Develop WGS Clinical Analysis Software
The collaboration will initially focus on the use of nanopore sequencing in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units to support rapid disease diagnosis.
Cancer Predisposition Variants Increase Secondary Cancer Mortality Risk in Pediatric Survivors
In data from childhood cancer survivors, researchers saw an uptick in secondary cancer-related mortality in those with cancer-linked germline variants.
D-CYPHR Launches in UK, Aiming to Improve Understanding of Childhood Health
The program will collect saliva samples for DNA analysis as well as health and lifestyle data to study how diseases develop from birth through adolescence.
Infant Rapid Genome Sequencing Yields More Diagnoses Than Targeted Gene Panels, Study Finds
In more than half of 400 infants with suspected genetic conditions, researchers reached molecular diagnoses using either technology.