Prototype or Boondoggle? Too Close to Call | GenomeWeb

Prototype or Boondoggle? Too Close to Call

Oct 12, 2009

The Gene Sherpa follows up on news that Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco, won a $24.8 million NIH grant to use data and biospecimens from 100,000 Kaiser members in a large-scale study of the health implications of genetic and environmental interactions.

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