Science researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are offering to sequence the DNA of 99 patients with rare genetic diseases in order to find the genetic alterations that made them ill. The new effort, known as the Rare99X Clinical Exome Challenge, will allow patients’ DNA to be decoded at the university’s Genomics and Pathology Services (GPS) at no cost to the patients or advocacy groups who represent them.
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1) Genome Institute awarded $114 million for research
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Results of two Alzheimer's research studies from Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have been published in the past month, adding significant new information to our understanding of the disease and how it functions.
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