Sep 3, 2015
HGSC has received an $8.39 million, four-year grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to help support a large research effort that seeks to incorporate DNA sequence information into electronic medical records.
The effort, called the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network, focuses on understanding the genomic basis of disease and tailoring medical care to individual patients based on their genomic differences. The Human Genome Sequencing Center will serve as one of two genome sequencing and genotyping facilities and will perform DNA sequence generation on 12,500 patients.