Needle in the Haystack?

It's been ages since I last checked in with Hugh Rienhoff, the Bay Area biotech entrepreneur who I profiled in the February 2009 issue of Wired. For those unfortunates among you who haven't read the piece, Rienhoff has spent much of the past six years analyzing his young daughter's DNA, in the hopes of discovering the reason she appears to be afflicted with a genetic disorder that bears some resemblance to Marfan syndrome. He does the bulk of this work in the attic of his home, where he...