Largest Ever Study Of Genetics Of Common Disease Just Got Bigger

DNA samples from 120,000 people are to be analysed in a 30 million pounds follow up to last year’s Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), the largest ever study of the genetics behind common diseases. The seven-fold increase in the number of samples to be analysed will allow researchers to look at 25 diseases as well as studying the genetics of learning in children and individuals’ responses to statins.

More: continued here

Filed under: Genetics on April 17th, 2008