KEY POINTS 1. Birth defects are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children and are present in 3% to 6% of births. 2. The most common birth defects, which account for nearly half of the birth defects…
KEY POINTS 1. Genomic medicine has emerged as a new discipline to analyze the human genome and genetic information as a part of clinical care. 2. There are various types of molecular techniques to detect various genetic variations. Each method…
Introduction The human genome refers to the complete set of human DNA (with the suffix -ome arising from the Greek for “all” or “complete”). A copy of our genome comprises approximately 3 billion base pairs (bp) and about 20,000 protein-coding…