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173,303 Pakistani genomes, published in Nature
The Pakistan Genome Resource found about 34,000 people who naturally lack a working copy of one of roughly 6,500 genes. About a third of participants' parents were first cousins, which makes such 'human knockouts' far easier to find than in European cohorts.
Nature ↗PacBio webinar · 21 May 2026Filling the gaps in rare disease research with long reads
On-demand PacBio webinar on using HiFi sequencing to solve undiagnosed rare-disease cases that short reads miss. Ask us about running a pilot in Pakistan.
PacBio ↗Gene therapy · 23 Apr 2026First gene therapy for inherited deafness approved
The FDA approved Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec), which delivers a working OTOF gene to the inner ear. In the trial, 80% of participants gained hearing.
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