Description This is a book of real stories about the Search for Genomic Spelling Errors that have stark consequences -- infants who pass away mysteriously, siblings with misplaced organs, a family with several instances of vision loss, sisters whose hearts fail in the prime of their youth, a boy whose blood can\'t carry enough oxygen, a baby with cancer in the eye, a middle-aged patient battling cancer, and the author\'s own color blindness.
The Search in each case proves to be a detective quest that connects the world of medical practice with that of molecular biology, traversing the world of computer algorithms along the way..
Description This is a book of real stories about the Search for Genomic Spelling Errors that have stark consequences -- infants who pass away mysteriously, siblings with misplaced organs, a family with several instances of vision loss, sisters whose hearts fail in the prime of their youth, a boy whose blood can\'t carry enough oxygen, a baby with cancer in the eye, a middle-aged patient battling cancer, and the author\'s own color blindness
