Researcher details US biobank's value as global resource in study of roots of disease, health
The National Institutes of Health's 'All of Us' program has become the world's largest integrated health and genomic database, with nearly 750,000 volunteers. Researchers believe this resource will be pivotal in understanding the genetic and environmental roots of disease due to the diversity of the American population.
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Large-scale genomic data is essential for precision medicine and understanding how social and environmental factors influence health outcomes across diverse groups.
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Add as preferred source Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels Just as this country celebrated its 250th birthday, some geneticists were celebrating America, too. At the end of June, the National Institutes of Health announced its "All of Us" Research Program had become the world's largest database of integrated health and genomic information. The project, launched in 2015 under the Obama administration, aimed to collect comprehensive genetic information and health records from at least a million Americans. Eleven years later, they're approaching that goal, with 747,000 volunteers sharing their whole genomes, lifelong health records or both.
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