Josh Petrikin, Children's Mercy Kansas City (IMAGE)

Children's Mercy Hospital

Josh Petrikin, Children's Mercy Kansas City

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A study published today in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine and presented at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting revealed the early results of the clinical usefulness of rapid whole-genome sequencing in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units (NICUs and PICUs). Children's Mercy Kansas City's STAT-Seq test helped diagnose a genetic disease in more than one half of 35 critically ill infants tested, compared to just nine percent with standard genetic tests.

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