Seattle Children's Hospital
Inclusive Newborn Sequencing Approach Shows Potential for Boosting Diagnostic Rate
Researchers increased the diagnostic rate for critically ill newborns by using simple, broad exclusion criteria rather than complicated guidelines for selecting infants to be sequenced.
Gates Foundation Awards Multiple Grants for Omics, Dx Projects in September
Awardees include Seattle Children's Hospital, the University of Birmingham, PATH, Magic Lifescience, and Princeton University.
The five centers, funded as part of NIH's Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network, will analyze over 2,200 samples to study somatic variants in humans.
Pacific Biosciences, GeneDx, UW Collaborate on Google-Funded Study of WGS in Neonatal Care
Google will contribute expertise on informatics methods and provide an undisclosed amount of funding, including for reagents, to the project.
SeqFirst Results Highlight Diagnostic Gains From Rapid Genome Sequencing in Critically Ill Newborns
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Data from the first phase of the project showed that the conventional genetic testing approach would have missed 42 percent of infants diagnosed in the study.