Sequencing healthy patients reveals that many carry rare genetic disease risks

Brigham Press Release |
June 2017
Press Release

Integrating genome sequencing and other omics technologies into the day-to-day practice of medicine is an extraordinarily exciting prospect with the potential to anticipate and prevent diseases throughout an individual’s lifetime,” said senior author Robert C. Green, MD, MPH.

Baby genome sequencing for sale in China

MIT Technology Review |
June 2017
Press

“The idea of finding a risk in their beautiful baby of something that might or might not happen is terrifying or repugnant,” he says. “But other types of people are information seekers.”