More than 2, 000 families with two or more affected children have donated DNA samples to the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, funded by Autism Speaks, which makes the information available to researchers around the world.

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In order to realize the goal of true personalized cancer treatments, much more data will have to be made available and paired with rich clinical information on the case histories of the patients from which the samples come.

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