UTHealth Study Outlines Framework for Identifying Disease Risk in Genome Sequence
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 14:41
in Health & Medicine
- Imagine a day when you visit the doctor's office for your annual physical. Your physician orders routine tests - cholesterol, glucose and blood count - but they also order a sequence of your genome, all 3 billion letters of it. Routine genomic testing is not far away, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).