National genome service

• Autores: Matt Reynolds
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3141, 2017, págs. 22-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Reynolds discusses the privacy concerns about the 100,000 Genomes Project which will hand over the responsibility for sequencing genomes to NHS England. The 100,000 Genomes Project is already benefiting people with certain cancers or rare diseases who share their genome or their cancer's genome. Although only 32,000 genomes have been sequenced since the initiative started in 2012, it has delivered diagnoses to people who had spent decades without one. Whether that leads to better treatments remains to be seen. From March 2018, NHS England will offer whole-genome sequencing to anyone with specific cancers or diseases, with the option to contribute their genomes to the project's database.