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A universal carrier test for the long tail of Mendelian disease.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Oct 2010
Srinivasan Balaji S, Evans Eric A, Flannick Jason, Patterson A Scott, Chang Christopher C, Pham Tuan, Young Sharon, Kaushal Amit, Lee James, Jacobson Jessica L, Patrizio Pasquale
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian disorders are individually rare but collectively common, forming a 'long tail' of genetic disease. A single highly accurate assay for this long tail would allow the scaling up of the Jewish community's successful campaign of population screening for Tay-Sachs disease to the general popu...
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