Study outlines framework for identifying disease risk in genome sequence

Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 15:11 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.

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