New York's Polyethnic-1000: a regional initiative to understand how diverse ancestries influence the risk, progression, and treatment of cancers. Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Research consortia can help to repair deficiencies in knowledge about the influence of inherited genetic diversity on disease. The New York Genome Center (NYGC) recently established Polyethnic-1000 (P-1000), a multi-institutional collaboration to study hereditary factors affecting several types of cancer. Here, we describe its rationale, organization, development, current activities, and prospects.

publication date

  • December 9, 2021

Research

keywords

  • Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85120823592

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.trecan.2021.11.005

PubMed ID

  • 34895873