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NEW YORK – US Senators Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey), Doug Jones (D-Alabama), Martha McSally (R-Arizona), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have introduced legislation in the Senate intended to help children with rare diseases receive testing with whole-genome sequencing in hopes of finding a cause for their conditions.

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