17-year-old uses the Ion PGM™ Sequencer to find DNA variation in estrogen receptor gene

Ben Kompa, a Columbus, Ohio high school student was just 16 when he did his first run on an Ion PGM™ sequencer. A year later he and Dr. Julia Pinsonneault, a researcher from Ohio State University Medical Center, used the Ion PGM™ system to find a DNA variation in the estrogen receptor gene that appears to be associated with levels of RNA expression, a potential breakthrough. Listen to an interview with Ben Kompa and the other researchers involved in the project.
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