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NYGC Initiative Receives up to $2.1M for Cancer Studies in Ethnic Minorities

Sep 09, 2020
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NEW YORK — The New York Genome Center (NYGC) said on Tuesday that its Polyethnic-1000 research initiative has been awarded up to $2.1 million in grant funding over the next two years to support six projects using sequencing and other technologies to investigate the role of ethnicity in cancer.

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