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UK to Sequence 100K Patient Genomes as NHS Further Adapts Genomic Medicine

Dec 10, 2012
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – UK Prime Minister David Cameron today will announce a new initiative led by the National Health Service to sequence the genomes of up to 100,000 people and to use their genomic information in treatment and studies of cancer and other diseases.

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