Stimulus grant to fund whole-genome sequencing in children with ...

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Tue, 09/29/2009 - 22:00

(Children's Hospital Boston) Children's Hospital Boston, with the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, has been awarded a Grand Opportunity grant from the National Institute of Mental Health as part of the federal stimulus package, to pursue "whole-genome" sequencing of patients with autism, using new technologies for rapid DNA sequencing to better understand autism's causes.

The roughly $4.5 million grant is part of the federal Recovery Act funding announced today. All genetic sequence data will be made publicly available.

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