Note:
(a) That is "Stephen Kingsmore of the Center for Genomics at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri."
His resume in National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) at Santa Fe, New Mexico.
http://www.ncgr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=19%3Abiographies&id=15%3Astephen-f-kingsmore-president&Itemid=37
(b) The above is translated from
Jessica Berman, New Test Warns Couples of Genetic Illnesses. VOA, Jan. 14, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/health/New-Test-Warns-Couples-of-Genetic-Illnesses---113633454.html
(c) A similar report:
Nell Greenfieldboyce, New Genetic Test Screens Would-Be Parents. National Public Radio (NPR), Jan
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/13/132908098/new-gene-test-screens-nearly-500-childhood-diseases
Quote:
"one devastating childhood disease, Tay-Sachs, has been virtually eliminated in people with Eastern European Jewish ancestry.
"This week, in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Kingsmore's team describes that test. For less than $400, it can check a person's DNA for all mutations in genes related to nearly 448 severe childhood diseases.
My comment: Bell CJ et al, Carrier Testing for Severe Childhood Recessive Diseases by Next-Generation Sequencing. Sci. Transl. Med. 3, 65ra4 (2011).
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/65/65ra4.abstract
(abstract)
I have no access to the full text, so am clueless how the experiment, including sampling, was done.