The National Institutes of Health initiative that aims to make human genome research more inclusive reports its first results. Some 275 million new genetic variations have been identified.
A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major trove of results.program at the National Institutes of Health."The shear quantify of genetic data in a really diverse population for the first time creates a powerful foundation for researchers to make discoveries that will be relevant to everyone."
For example, researchers"don't understand how drugs work well in certain populations. We don't understand the causes of disease for many people," Denny says."Our project is to really correct some of those past inequities so we can really understand how we can improve health for everyone." "Most of that variation won't have an impact on health. But some of it will. And we will have the power to start uncovering those differences about health that will be relevant really maybe for the first time to all populations," he says,But one concern is that this kind of research may contribute to a misleading idea that genetics is a major factor — maybe even the most important factor — in health, critics say., a bioethicist at the University of Utah.
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