MedPage Today October 26, 2021
— “We have vastly underrepresented anyone who wasn’t European in ancestry”
The NIH’s All of Us Research Program has the ambitious goal of enrolling 1 million people across the U.S. to build one of the most diverse health databases in the country. Part of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative, it will connect a range of information, from genetics and blood biomarkers to electronic health record and lifestyle data, with the aim of better understanding disease across a diverse population that’s more representative of U.S. demographics.
Josh Denny, MD, the CEO of the program, spoke with MedPage Today ahead of his presentation at last week’s American Society for Human Genetics virtual meeting. Denny offered details on some of the most interesting...
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