Genetic sequencing alone doesn't offer a true picture of human disease
Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 14:20
in Biology & Nature
Despite what you might have heard, genetic sequencing alone is not enough to understand human disease. Researchers have shown that functional tests are absolutely necessary to understand the biological relevance of the results of sequencing studies as they relate to disease, using a suite of diseases known as the ciliopathies which can cause patients to have many different traits.