MANY of the world’s top health
researchers have announced a new
global alliance which will enable
“secure sharing of genomic and
clinical data”.
60 leading health care, research
and disease advocacy groups have
signed a letter of intent in which
they pledge to work to develop a
common data framework.
The aim is to use so-called ‘big
data’ to allow the analysis of gene
and clinical data, with the rapid
growth of genome sequencing.
“At present it is generally not
possible to predict which changes
in DNA sequence lead to clinical
consequences...only by comparing
each personal genome sequence
to a large repository of other
such data can robust patterns and
relationships be identified,” said a
spokesperson, with a white paper
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