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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucas Cumiskey

New £105m scheme aims to speed up diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in newborns

PA Wire

Thousands of babies born with treatable rare genetic diseases each year could get faster access to treatment if a new genomic sequencing research programme proves successful.

Genomics England will sequence the genomes of 100,000 newborn children – which involves the study of people’s DNA – for rare conditions, after the Government provided £105million in funding for the research, it was announced on Tuesday.

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