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New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)

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An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people from Africa and combine their DNA and medical data into a biobank for health studies.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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