With support from the A-T Childrenā€™s Project, the lab of Sharon McGrath-Morrow, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist for the A-T Clinical Center, is sequencing RNA from A-T patient blood cells in hopes of identifying markers that will correlate with either immune problems or cancer and predict the diseaseā€™s course. If found and validated, such biomarkers could allow researchers to confirm proof of mechanism and see efficacy more quickly during clinical trials or potentially treat specific subsets of A-T patients more precisely.
