Rare Disease Caucus Announces $2 Million Pilot Project in State Budget
The bipartisan Rare Disease Caucus announced today that the State Budget signed by Governor Jerry Brown includes $2 million to establish a California clinical pilot project to test a minimum of 100 Medi-Cal neonatal and other pediatric patients with undiagnosed diseases using clinical Whole Genome Sequencing. Whole genome sequencing is the process of determining the complete DNA sequence of a patient's genome at a single time.