Creation and maintenance of Helix, a Web based database of medical genetics laboratories, to serve the needs of the genetics community.

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Helix (healthlinks.washington.edu/helix) is a web accessible database that serves as the main U.S. directory of laboratories offering genetic testing. The database was designed to address the previously unmet need for a centralized, continuously updated source of information about clinical and research genetic testing to keep pace with the rapid rate of gene discovery resulting from the Human Genome Project. The...

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