Contact: Jim Dryden
jdryden@wustl.edu
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Washington University School of Medicine
Caption: Two new studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlight the power of sequencing cancer patients' genomes as a diagnostic tool, helping doctors decide the best course of treatment and researchers identify new cancer susceptibility mutations that can be passed from parent to child.
Credit: Washington University BioMed Radio
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