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Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital debuts a new way of sequencing genes

Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital debuts a new way of sequencing genes

Update: 2025-09-29
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Dr. Tomi Pastinen, director of Genomic Answers for Kids, led the first clinical study of five-base long read sequencing, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics. This new method shows doctors more of the genome and can diagnose rare diseases with a single test.
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Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital debuts a new way of sequencing genes

Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital debuts a new way of sequencing genes

Steve Kraske, Ellen Beshuk