Children's Hospital Boston
Public-Private Effort Leverages WGS to Speed Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Developmental Disorders
Project FIND-OUT aims to recruit 50 infants to study the impact of genetic testing on families and increase access to genetic testing within the US.
Pediatric Patients Face Barriers Receiving Exome Sequencing From Insurance, Scheduling Delays
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A recent analysis found that it can take between five days and more than a year from when testing is first considered to sample collection.
Study of Sudden Unexpected Death in Children Reveals New Genetic Factors
The exome sequencing study, presented at the ACMG annual clinical genetics meeting, implicated several neurological, cardiac, and systemic disease genes in the condition.
Boston Children's Coronavirus Test Gets Emergency Use Authorization
The test is designed to detect one target sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein gene in nasopharyngeal and certain other respiratory specimens.
Children's Hospital Network Wins $8.5M NIH Grant to Expand Data-Sharing Initiative
The Genomics Research and Innovation Network has built an open-source system for querying genotype-phenotype databases at its member hospitals.