Children's Mercy
Team Tracks Genetic Factors Linked to Severe COVID-19, Other Viral Infections in Children
At ACMG, researchers presented results from an ongoing effort using a growing sample collection to find genetic contributors to severe viral infections in children.
Pacific Biosciences, Children's Mercy, Microsoft Collaborate on Rare Genetic Disease Diagnostics
The organizations will apply PacBio's HiFi sequencing to a rare disease cohort whose genomes have not yet yielded causal variants by other methods.
Children's Mercy Hospital Raises $16M for Pediatric Genomic Repository Initiative
The effort, which will be the flagship project of the Children's Mercy Research Institute, aims to collect genomic data from 30,000 children and their families.
A recent study established high sensitivity and specificity for three CLIA waived point-of-care molecular flu tests in pediatric samples.
NSGC: Clinical Variant Interpretation Continues After Lab Reports Issued
At the National Society of Genetic Counselors annual meeting, a number of clinicians said they conduct their own investigations of variants in clinical lab reports.