NEW YORK, Sept. 9 - A DNA-sample facility jointly run by the Estonian Genome Project Foundation and the California company EGeen is set to receive its first batch of samples this month.
The partners said 10,000 DNA samples collected from three Estonian counties will arrive in the first half of September at the Tartu facility, which opened last week. This initial run will act as the first pancake of the three-year-long EGP project, the partners said. Nationwide collection will follow at an undisclosed time.
EGeen, based in Redwood City, Calif., has exclusive commercial rights to data compiled in the Estonian Genome Project, a government program designed to gather medical data and DNA samples from "a significant portion" of the 1.4 million people who live in this former Soviet-bloc country.
Privately held EGeen said it will use these data for drug and diagnostic discovery.
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