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Unexplained intellectual disability explained by state-of-the-art genetic analysis

November 8, 2012 by

A research team reported that next generation sequencing of the exome, the one to two percent of the DNA containing the genes that code for proteins, enabled the identification of the genetic causes of unexplained intellectual disability in over 50 percent of patients in a study.

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