Healthcare IT News January 15, 2025
Billed as more than 10 times the scale of previous endeavors, the Truveta Genome Project aims to ensure representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders and other social drivers of health – and broaden the reach of precision medicine.
Dozens of health systems representing millions of patients across the United States are collaborating with the Truveta Genome Project, Regeneron Genetics Center and genomic sequencing company Illumina to sequence the exomes of their first ten million volunteers.
As part of what may be the largest and most diverse sequencing project of genotypic and phenotypic information ever assembled, the health systems said in Truveta’s announcement Monday that their collaboration would aid in the development of next-generation data analytics to advance diagnoses, improve the...