Gencove Wins $330K NIH Grant for Polygenic Risk Score Evaluation Tech

Apr 26, 2019

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Gencove said today that it has received a $330,234 grant from the National Institutes of Health to validate its technologies for use in estimating polygenic risk scores.

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