Children’s, UNMC to Participate in Neonatal and Pediatric Genome Sequencing Trial

Children’s Hospital & Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) will take part in one of the nation’s first large-scale trials of clinical whole-genome sequencing (cWGS) in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit (NICU and PICU) environments. The primary aim of the study is to evaluate whether the clinical management of acutely ill newborns suspected for having a genetic condition is altered with cWGS.