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The project will aid research, improve diagnosis and ultimately clinical outcomes so NHS patients can receive care based on cutting edge scientific techniques.
Eligible patients with rare diseases and cancers are being invited to provide health data and blood and tissue samples for whole genome sequencing - where a complete set of a person's genes is decoded - for the national 100,000 Genomes Project, which was supported by a pilot by the Oxford Molecular Diagnostics Centre (OMDC) at the Trust's John Radcliffe Hospital.
Read more (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust)
Links
- More information about the national 100,000 Genomes Project
- The full list of Rare Disease Conditions and Phenotypes currently included in the 100,000 Genomes Project