Inside Precision Medicine February 20, 2024
More than 275 million previously unreported genetic variants have been identified by the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, which has enrolled more than 750,000 people since it was launched in 2018. Notably, half of the genomic data in this study are from participants of non-European genetic ancestry and nearly four million of the newly identified variants are in areas that may be tied to disease risk.
The data release includes 245,388 clinical-grade genome sequences. The findings are reported in Nature.
Real applications of this data are already in the works. In a companion study published in Communications Biology, a research team led by Baylor College of Medicine reviewed the frequency of genes and variants...
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