Vanderbilt University Medical Center-Led Network to Focus on Polygenic Risk for Common Diseases
July 02, 2020
July 02, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 2 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news on July 1:
With the aid of a $75 million, five-year grant renewal, the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network (eMERGE) will venture beyond its current focus on monogenic disease, that is, diseases inordinately influenced by single genes and single genomic variants, to scoring research participants' relative risk for complex heritable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, chroni . . .
With the aid of a $75 million, five-year grant renewal, the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network (eMERGE) will venture beyond its current focus on monogenic disease, that is, diseases inordinately influenced by single genes and single genomic variants, to scoring research participants' relative risk for complex heritable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, chroni . . .