Finding phenotype

NIH wants to find direct relationships between genes and disease more efficiently than GWAS or other standard approaches allow. The institute has teamed up with Inova Health System to create a searchable pool of genomes from volunteer donors, whom researchers can call in for additional studies to test their hypotheses out on.

The partners are taking a thrifty approach to demonstrating proof of concept; their launch of a two-year, intramural pilot leverages participant recruitment, DNA sequencing and clinical profiling resources that are largely prepaid. ...