Why Employers Should Cover Whole Genome Sequencing | with Joshua Resnikoff
Whole genome sequencing costs about $1,000 today. Ten years ago it was fifteen. Clinical guidelines already say kids with epilepsy or developmental delay should be escalated to it, and more than half of them never are.
My guest this week is Joshua Resnikoff, founder of Sunstone Health and a former bench scientist at Harvard.
He came to this the hard way. His middle son started spiking 105-degree fevers at 18 months old, and it took three years and several pediatricians to name the condition. When they finally did, the answer was that there's no treatment.
Josh knew the tests existed. He just…
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