The National Institutes of Health predicts U.S. physicians will have ordered 10,000 clinical genome or exome sequencing procedures for their patients this year.
The NIH predicts that number to keep growing into 2015 and beyond.
"The technologies that were used for the Human Genome Project are now distilled down to practical tools that clinicians can use to diagnose and, hopefully, treat diseases in patients that they couldn't treat before," said Leslie G. Biesecker, MD, of the National Human Genome Research Institute, in a news release.
"It's come much faster and developed more quickly and become more useful clinically than I think any reasonable person would have suggested just 10 years ago. At that time, I don't think anybody would have taken you seriously if you had said that in 2014, tens of thousands of patients would be getting clinical genome and exome sequencing."
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