NGS -next generation sequencing

Undiagnosed diseases program helps patients find answers for mysterious conditions.

Focusing on genetic conditions Or syndromes.

NGS created 100k variants. Analysis for data quality and population metrics to reduce variants to reduce variants to around 500.

This makes it easier to evaluate symptoms.

Comparisons are done against other species. This allows comparison of symptoms to human conditions and mice conditions. This further reduces the causal variants helping to isolate the root symptom(s)

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Mark Scrimshire
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