U.S. officials hope genetic data from thousands of participants in ongoing studies

U.S. officials hope genetic data from thousands of participants in ongoing studies

?In an effort to remain the leader in health and innovative breakthroughs, President Obama announced a pioneer announcement for analyzing DNA last week,” says Scott Wolf, CEO of Grace Century. ?All can say is that this is a perfect premise for a science fiction movie!”

WASHINGTON (January 31, 2015 – The Gulf Today)— The United States has proposed analysing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new initiative to understand human disease and develop medicines targeted to an individual?s genetic make-up.

At the heart of the initiative, to be announced on Friday by President Barack Obama, is the creation of a pool of people ? healthy and ill, men and women, old and young ? who would be studied to learn how genetic variants affect health and disease.

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