Ending Diagnostic Odysseys the Wisconsin Way

Mar 24, 2011, 06:25 AM by Michael Croft

NGS Leaders | For the past several years, the Medical College of Wisconsin's Howie Jacob has been telling everyone that genomic sequencing will reach the clinic by about 2014. It turns out he was a little late. As Kevin Davies explains on NGS Leaders, Jacob and colleagues are blazing a trail for applying whole-genome sequencing for seriously ill patients with undiagnosed disorders.

March 24, 2011 | Howard Jacob began his scientific career studying the genetics of rats with Broad Institute director Eric Lander, but for the past several years he has been telling anyone who will listen that genomic sequencing will reach the clinic by about 2014. His colleagues responded dismissively: “It will be a long time before we use genomic sequencing in the clinic—and no-one will ever pay for it,” they kept telling Jacob.It turns out they were all wrong. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clinical sequencing has already arrived. Even more remarkably, insurance companies are (in some cases) offering reimbursement. Read more at NGS Leaders...