GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM announced that 100,000 recruits have signed up for the health system’s major biobank and DNA sequencing study known as the MyCode Community Health Initiative.
Launched in January 2014 in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center, the MyCode Community Health Initiative originally set out to recruit 100,000 study participants. That target, however, was reached in only two years. Geisinger researchers have set a new goal of at least 250,000 participants.
Geisinger’s study is also the largest in the United States that combines electronic health records linked to large-scale DNA sequencing data, according to the company.
