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Whole-Genome Sequencing Study Identifies Four Novel Disease-Causing Variants

Jun 24, 2020
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NEW YORK – A team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge has published a new study describing its use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in the UK's national health system to streamline disease diagnosis, and to discover unknown etiological variants in the coding and non-coding regions of the genome.

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