Hunting Disease Origins By Whole-Genome Sequencing

ChocSnorfler writes "James Lupski, a physician-scientist who suffers from a neurological disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, has been searching for the genetic cause of his disease for more than 25 years. Late last year, he finally found it — by sequencing his entire genome. While a number of human genome sequences have been published to date, Lupski's research is the first to show how whole-genome sequencing can be used to identify the genetic cause of an individual's disease."

Comments

Re:Ambiguous parsing

[Em Emalb]

You ever been to Alabama in the winter?

Re:Can of Worms?

[blackraven14250]

What a fucking irony that would be.

Re:Can of Worms?

[blackraven14250]

For the bathrooms, we do discriminate based on a specific genetic difference right now.

Re:Ambiguous parsing

[sjames]

Also known as "Cheney's disease"