Genetic sequencing used to identify and treat unknown disease

Monday, December 20, 2010 - 12:35 in Biology & Nature

For the one of the first times in medical history, researchers and physicians sequenced all the genes in a boy's DNA to identify a previously-unknown mutation. The team was able not only to identify the mutation, but to develop a treatment plan using a cord blood transplant, and stop the course of the disease.

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