“Genomics England are poised to a launch a pilot project which will see the genomes of newborn babies sequenced on their very first day of life…In the USA, under a pilot project called BabySeq, a team co-led by Robert Green from Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that across 1,500 genes in 127 healthy and 32 sick babies, 8 per cent of apparently healthy babies had mutations for a childhood genetic disorder, and some 88 per cent were carriers of a genetic disease.”
