Nic Volker May Be Leading Edge of New Wave of Genetic Medicine

February 28, 2011

February 28, 2011 | Evidence is emerging that the case of Nic Volker, a young undiagnosed patient in Wisconsin who was treated after exome sequencing revealed a specific genetic lesion, may be the leading edge of a wave moving across medicine. Doctors at the Medical College and Children's Hospital have half-a-dozen new cases moving through an evaulation process while other institutions are expanding the use of new genomic analysis tools. Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel