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Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine
The increasing understanding of the genome is recognised as being one of the main determinants of future improvement in healthcare. The availability of genetic data from a large number of individuals increases the ability to investigate questions across many rare and common diseases and in different...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31988947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000481300 |
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description | The increasing understanding of the genome is recognised as being one of the main determinants of future improvement in healthcare. The availability of genetic data from a large number of individuals increases the ability to investigate questions across many rare and common diseases and in different populations, and also provides more information for understanding clinical care outcomes for an individual. A number of large scale genome sequencing initiatives have been launched in the last few years to try and capitalise on this potential. Within Europe, the UK has led the way with the 100,000 Genomes Project. This project looks at the genome sequences of patients with rare diseases or cancer. More recently France announced plans to invest EUR 670 million in a genomics and personalised medicine programme. In the US, the Precision Medicine Initiative aims at large-scale research by gathering one million or more volunteers to extend precision medicine to all diseases. Meanwhile, China has announced plans to invest nearly USD 10 billion in its own precision medicine initiative. These projects demonstrate the commitment at a national level and raise the question “What benefits would be realised by undertaking a million genome initiative in a coordinated effort across European countries?” A coordinated, pan-European MEGA project would garner crucial genetic information that could have an immeasurable benefit when it comes to the health of current and future EU citizens. |
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spelling | pubmed-69459532020-01-27 Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine Horgan, Denis Romao, Mario Hastings, Rob Biomed Hub Article The increasing understanding of the genome is recognised as being one of the main determinants of future improvement in healthcare. The availability of genetic data from a large number of individuals increases the ability to investigate questions across many rare and common diseases and in different populations, and also provides more information for understanding clinical care outcomes for an individual. A number of large scale genome sequencing initiatives have been launched in the last few years to try and capitalise on this potential. Within Europe, the UK has led the way with the 100,000 Genomes Project. This project looks at the genome sequences of patients with rare diseases or cancer. More recently France announced plans to invest EUR 670 million in a genomics and personalised medicine programme. In the US, the Precision Medicine Initiative aims at large-scale research by gathering one million or more volunteers to extend precision medicine to all diseases. Meanwhile, China has announced plans to invest nearly USD 10 billion in its own precision medicine initiative. These projects demonstrate the commitment at a national level and raise the question “What benefits would be realised by undertaking a million genome initiative in a coordinated effort across European countries?” A coordinated, pan-European MEGA project would garner crucial genetic information that could have an immeasurable benefit when it comes to the health of current and future EU citizens. S. Karger AG 2017-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6945953/ /pubmed/31988947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000481300 Text en Copyright © 2017 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND) (http://www.karger.com/Services/OpenAccessLicense). Usage and distribution for commercial purposes requires written permission. |
spellingShingle | Article Horgan, Denis Romao, Mario Hastings, Rob Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine |
title | Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine |
title_full | Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine |
title_fullStr | Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine |
title_full_unstemmed | Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine |
title_short | Pulling the Strands Together: MEGA Steps to Drive European Genomics and Personalised Medicine |
title_sort | pulling the strands together: mega steps to drive european genomics and personalised medicine |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6945953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31988947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000481300 |
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