W. Edward Highsmith, Jr.
Editor

2014

12 Tests That Changed Everything

When I was asked by my friends and colleagues, Drs. Greg J. Tsongalis and Bill Coleman, to edit a book in their series on Molecular Medicine, I was, of course, quite fl attered. But that feeling changed fairly quickly to one of disquiet—because I did not know what subject to try and explore in a book format. Most of the things that I have spent the past 20 or so years doing— technology development, genotype–phenotype correlations in genetic disease, and laboratory management—had all been covered by a number of books and reviews, and I was not sure that the world needed more on these topics.