New Computer Program ‘Learns’ to Identify Mosaic Mutations that Cause Disease

“We [researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine] have had many epilepsy patients where we were not able to spot the cause, but once we applied our method, called ‘DeepMosaic,’ to the genomic data, the mutation became obvious. This has allowed us to improve the sensitivity of DNA sequencing in certain forms of epilepsy, and had led to discoveries that point to new ways to treat brain disease.”  MORE

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