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Genome find pushes personalized medicine ahead
March 12, 2010, 6:43 am by Healthcare IT News
In a scientific coup that could mean leaps for personalized medicine, two Baylor College of Medicine scientists have sequenced an individual's genome and identified the specific causative mutation associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT).
The disease is one of the most common inherited neurological disorders currently affecting 1 in 2,500 individuals in the United States. The scientists used genomic analysis technologies from Life Technologies Corp.
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