Project pinpoints 12 new genetic causes of developmental disorders

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) Deciphering Developmental Disorders, the world's largest, nationwide and genome-wide diagnostic sequencing program, has discovered 12 new genetic causes of developmental disorders.The project will ultimately analyse data from 12,000 families. This paper describes results from the first 1133 samples, which have increased the proportion of patients that can be diagnosed by 10 per cent.