From Californians’ DNA, a Giant Genome Project
May 31, 2010 | Source: New York Times
More than 130,000 members of Kaiser Permanente in Northern California have volunteered to have their DNA scanned by robotic, high-speed gene-reading machines, as part of the largest human genome study of its kind ever attempted.
The goal: help scientists uncover the genetic roots of chronic disease and, perhaps, to find out why some people live longer than others, including via telomere length measurements.