Boston Children's Hospital

Thirty teams compete to interpret three families' genomes

Monday, August 20, 2012 12:08 PM

In a contest led by Boston Children's Hospital, 30 teams from around the world are vying to interpret the DNA sequences of three children with rare conditions whose cause remains a mystery—with the goal of establishing "best practices" for interpreting genomic data.

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Analysis: Disparity between number of children with major diseases and pediatric studies

Monday, July 23, 2012 11:54 AM

New analysis shows there are major discrepancies between the amount of pediatric clinical research for several major global diseases and the number of children who suffer from those diseases. While children bear nearly 60% of the burden of 10 major global diseases, only about 12% of the clinical trials for those diseases include or focus on children, according to Boston Children's Hospital doctors Kenneth Mandl and Florence Bourgeois’s analysis of five years of clinical trial data.

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