Whole genomes, small children, big questions

Personalized Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 667-669

  Lunshof, Jeantine E ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

children; clinical care; ethics; n = 1 studies; noninvasive prenatal diagnosis; whole exome sequencing; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; EXOME; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 84866412139     PISSN: 17410541     EISSN: 1744828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/pme.12.75     Document Type: Review

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