http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1849 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/lab-moves-genomic-testing-clinic <!--paging_filter--><p>The earliest symptom of the inherited heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be sudden death at a tragically young age. Harvard Medical School researchers discovered the first human gene underlying the disorder 15 years ago, but clinical genetic testing to identify those people at risk just became available last year.</p><p>About the same time, another genetic test emerged to detect the one in 10 lung cancers susceptible to certain new targeted drugs, within months of reports by two HMS teams that these drug-responsive tumor cells have mutations in a key signaling domain of their epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs).</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/lab-moves-genomic-testing-clinic">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:23:23 -0400 70652986 3722 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu