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- Revolutionary project will obtain entire genome sequences in fight against Alzheimer’s – MedicalXpress
Since 2004, UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI) has been responsible for receiving, organizing, archiving and disseminating the stream of data generated by the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), an ambitious, worldwide effort by scientists to define the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
That stream of data will now turn into a flood, as LONI partners with an ambitious publicprivate effort to dig deeper into the causes of this devastating disease by obtaining the whole-genome sequencing of the more than 800 people enrolled in ADNI the largest cohort of individuals related to a single disease…