New genetic analysis improves diagnosis of intellectual disability
Whole-genome sequencing can be used to diagnose intellectual disability more accurately than other methods of genetic analysis, researchers at Karolinska Institutet report in the scientific journal Genome Medicine. Whole-genome sequencing using analytical tools developed by the researchers will now be introduced for first-line clinical diagnosis at Karolinska University Laboratory in Sweden.“Recent technical leaps in genetic diagnostics have revealed many new genetic aberrations that cause intellectual disability,” says Anna Lindstrand, associate professor at the Department of Molecular