This lab’s gene test can find more rare diseases. This is what it can do for the ‘diagnostic odyssey’ of families

This lab’s gene test can find more rare diseases. This is what it can do for the ‘diagnostic odyssey’ of families

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There are more than 7,000 rare disorders, and many cannot be diagnosed in a doctor’s office. That’s why genetic sequencing is so important. Now The Jackson Laboratory in Farmington is able to sequence the entire genome, an advance that will roughly double the number of rare diseases that can be…

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