We don't have to do everything ourselves. Maybe you could find researchers working on his topic (your disease or the generic problem of identifying causal muta

We don't have to do everything ourselves. Maybe you could find researchers working on his topic (your disease or the generic problem of identifying causal mutations for a disease) and pay them to work on your case? You might fight your own parking ticket but you'd get a lawyer for your murder defence... Computer people get paid a hella lot more than university medical research people, especially those outside big cities or in Europe or Asia. It's more efficient to work hard at making money and hire a few experts.