JAMA Network March 13, 2024
People with European genetic ancestry represent only a minority of the world’s population, yet they account for more than 90% of participants in large genomics studies.
That discrepancy “has led to many challenges in equity,” 31 leaders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its All of Us Research Program noted in a recent commentary in Nature Medicine.
With the aim of improving precision medicine for all, the NIH launched All of Us in 2018. So far, All of Us has enrolled more than 750 000 people from all over the US toward its goal of 1 million or more participants. In late 2023, the program began enrolling young children at a few of its partner sites as well as...
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