Baby's genes mapped at birth

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3016, 2015, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This April 2015, doctors in Boston will begin sequencing the genomes of healthy babies for the first time to explore the benefits and risks of sequencing at birth. They've been at an impasse for the last few years--they've had the technology to deliver information about future health, but they've not been able to use it because of all the issues around it, says Robert Green of Harvard Medical School, who is conducting the BabySeq project alongside Alan Beggs at Boston Children's Hospital. Pregnant women already have blood tests to assess their risk of passing on certain genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis.