Bio-IT World March 1, 2021
Josh Denny, CEO of NIH’s All of Us program, gave an update on the population sequencing program in the opening session of the virtual AGBT General Meeting this week.
Using numbers current as of January 19, 2021, Denny reported that the All of Us program has more than 366,000 participants. More than 233,000 have shared access to their medical records, and more than 279,000 have contributed some biosamples which includes physical measurements, blood, saliva, and/or urine samples. The All of Us program did pause recruitment in March 2020 because of the pandemic, but recruitment resumed in late 2020, Denny said and numbers are again increasing.
Participants come from all 50 states and all available ages (18 and older), though...
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