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December 7, 2018

Illumina, Inc., which has a Madison affiliate, Epicentre, announced the launch of its new high-density genotyping array, the Infinium™ Global Diversity Array. This new array was developed for and inspired by the All of Us Research Program. All of Us is an historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States, to accelerate human disease research and improve health. ...

December 5, 2018

We're, technically, not allowed to enroll badgers, but the "Big Man" was kind enough to help us demonstrate how easy the All of Us enrollment process is....

December 5, 2018

The underrepresentation of nonwhite ethnic groups in scientific research and in clinical trials is a disturbing trend. The implications of this problem in the limited realm of clinical trials have been reported, but the roots of the disparity run much deeper. Human genomic databases—collections of all the genetic information that has been sequenced over the years—are also heavily skewed toward people of European descent. Research programs, such as All of Us, aim to change this....