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Gene hunt is on for mental disability

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Pioneering clinical genome-sequencing projects focus on patients with developmental delay.

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  • 20 April 2012

    This article incorrectly stated that the rare-diseases conference was hosted by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK. It was held at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton. The text has been corrected to reflect this.

  • 25 April 2012

    The News story ‘Gene hunt is on for mental disability’ ( Nature 484, 302–303; 2012) incorrectly said that a rare-diseases conference was hosted by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK; it was held at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton.

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Callaway, E. Gene hunt is on for mental disability. Nature 484, 302–303 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484302a

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