A Personalized Medicine Pilot
December 29, 2011

The Mayo Clinic is starting a pilot study to sequence patients in an effort to personalize their health care... Patients will either have their entire genome, disease-related genes, or drug metabolism-related genes sequenced. "The project will help managers at the clinic decide whether it makes sense to read and store a patient's whole genome early on, instead of ordering single genetic tests as and when the need arises," Sample says.

"With piecemeal genetic testing you only test for what you know. The advantage of whole genome sequencing is that you go after everything," ... give(s) you a fuller picture, but it allows you to draw complex interaction pathways that you cannot draw by going after select genes.

http://www.genomeweb.com//node/10065...q_v=9a18e8a1ce