Tag: Genetic Database
Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative (GBMI) Connects Biobanks Together to Enable Better Studies of Genetic...
In 2019, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, together with colleagues at the University of Michigan and researchers around the world,...
MIT and Harvard Researchers Create Online Resource to Help Connect Rare Genetic Variants to...
In 2006, researchers discovered that people with certain variants of the gene PCSK9 had dramatically lower cholesterol levels than the general population. Individuals with two...
Mount Sinai Partners with Regeneron Genetics Center to Launch Huge Genetic Sequencing Research Project
Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have launched a new human genome sequencing research project called the...
UK Biobank Released Final Data from the World’s Largest Whole Exome Sequencing Project
UK Biobank has added the final tranche of exome sequencing data to its research database. This represents the completion of cohort-wide exome sequencing for...
New Study Explores the Use of Blockchain Technology to Protect Indigenous Genomic Data
Genomic data from Indigenous communities plays an important role in understanding an array of diseases; however, this data has often been used without informed...
VA’s MVP Mega-Biobank Collaborates with NIH to Advance Genetic Discoveries for Veterans
Since 2011, more than 875,000 Veterans have donated their DNA to the VA Million Veteran Program (MVP). In the program, VA researchers are sequencing...
Cryopreservation and Biobanking Could Save the World’s Rarest Species from Extinction
Scientists at the Chester Zoo in the UK have teamed up with some of the UK’s leading animal reproduction experts and founded Nature’s SAFE,...
NIH’s All of Us Program Releases Dataset of Almost 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences
Nearly 100,000 highly diverse whole genome sequences are now available through the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. About 50% of the...
One of Most Diverse Biobanks in the USA Held by UTHSC and Le Bonheur...
Memphis, a city where 64% of the population is Black, now has one of the largest genetic databases of people with African ancestry in...
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University of Western Australia Launches Human Milk Research Biobank
New research collection: UWA's WA Human Milk Biobank has collected more than 1,000 samples and has capacity for more than 100,000.
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