Two studies published in the American Journal of Human Genetics show the potential for genomic screening in newborns to address high rates of infant hospitalization and mortality in the United States and reported a 97 percent reduction in false positives based on a method derived from human evolution.
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc, president and CEO, at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, shares details of the BeginNGS newborn screening program and its future goals.
WASHINGTON POST: DNA sequencing to diagnose newborns could end up saving much more money — especially if done for babies who are sick. In a study funded by the state of California called Project Baby Bear, researcher Stephen Kingsmore found that sequencing the whole genomes of 178 infants hospitalized in intensive care saved $2.5 million.
