Mount Sinai Aims To Enroll One Million People In Genetic Sequencing Project

The greater New York metropolitan area is the epicenter of an ambitious human genome sequencing research project newly launched by Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center (part of biotechnology company Regeneron). If the vision is realized, Mount Sinai will enroll a million patients into a study over the next five years that will sequence and analyze the DNA in their blood to tease out the role of genetics and environment on health, according to Alexander W. Charney, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, and genetics and genomic sciences, as well as leader of the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program.

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