Sentences with phrase «genomes of sick children»

We spoke with him about his program for rapidly sequencing the genomes of sick children and what he's looking for in the field of next generation sequencing and genomics.

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As techniques to analyze whole genomes improve, more autism - associated mutations will be discovered, clarifying the genetic basis of the disease, says Stephen Scherer, a geneticist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who helped run the international study.

In work published in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and presented today, researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, studied 11 families with Li - Fraumeni syndrome and reported that those affected had an average of 12 CNVs in their genome, compared with three in controls.