Quite recently, on the pages of our portal, we wrote that in our DNA, the number of genes turned out to be much larger than we previously assumed. But experiments with the carrier of genetic information do not even think to end. For example, just a few days ago a group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) received funding from the government of the country in the amount of $ 28.6 million and the construction of genetic data centers. The project was named All of Us and is already called the largest DNA research project in history.
Within the framework of the All of Us project, scientists plan to isolate, sequence and add information about the DNA of about 1 million people to the database. At the moment, 110,000 people have registered in the program, 60,000 of whom have already passed the first stage of preliminary data collection. The material will be collected and studied at major US universities: Baylor College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Texas, the University of Washington and the University of Cambridge.
At the same time, in the course of the study, the participants in the project participants not only provide their DNA for study, but also take surveys related to health and lifestyle. But no one is going to take their word for it either. Each person will have to pass a series of tests several times to identify any abnormalities and correlate them with a set of genes, as well as provide information about the level of physical activity from fitness trackers, apps, smart watches and other gadgets. As one of the NIH directors Francis Collins said,
All collected data will be collected in a single database in an impersonal form. Moreover, each project participant will have access to information about their own genome. At stage 1, "individual cells" will contain data on 59 genes associated with a number of dangerous diseases. In the future, this information will be supplemented. As All of Us Project Manager Eric Dishman emphasized, Vladimir Kuznetsov