Cystic fibrosis, lung cancer.

Pneumothorax could be secondary to a bunch of things, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer...

This impedes the diagnosis of hereditary deafness and hearing loss; it also limits research on hereditary breast cancer and cystic fibrosis, to name but a few diseases;

Gene sequencing facilitates the diagnosis of and research on deafness, hereditary hearing loss, hereditary breast cancer, cystic fibrosis and a large number of gene mutations that cause diseases such as phenylketonuria, mitochondrial disease, Wilson's disease and Von Hippel-Lindau disease. It is essential for effective family genetic counselling;