ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery
I've been wondering for some time what the next step is for gene sequencing. Shouldn't someone be working on a 50 year long study where people are brought in at age 20, genes sequenced and dna stored, and an extremely thorough battery of parameters (height, length of each long bone, eye color, etc.) is measured. Tie everything in with medical history. Do the same thing every 10 years for each subject until death.<p>With a large enough sample pool, we'd be able to correlate features with obscure genes, wouldn't we? Am I missing something fundamental?<p>It seems like now is the time to get started.