Friday, September 16, 2011

A Family Learns the Secrets of Its Genomes

The findings demonstrate how genome analysis could guide health-care decisions for healthy people.

In November 2009, the West family embarked on an unusual family project. Parents John and Judy and teenagers Anne and Paul each had their genomes sequenced, and enlisted a team of scientists at Stanford University to interpret the meaning of the combined 24 billion letters of DNA in those genomes.



Source: http://feeds.technologyreview.com/click.phdo?i=ad7364f1fa04c4d2eadea1805d34d184

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