University of Melbourne
Australia leads world first global effort to improve diagnosis of genetic disorders
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, November 24th, 2008
"There is a staggering error rate of up to 40 percent in some reporting of genetic variations," said Professor Richard Cotton, lead author of the paper, Convenor of the Human Variome Project and honorary researcher at the University of Melbourne.
"This means clinicians and specialists cannot solely rely on the research literature to inform the life and death decisions of diagnosis and prognosis of genetic disorders."
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