Finnish researchers to create DNA database of 500,000 people for disease studies | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi

Finnish researchers to create DNA database of 500,000 people for disease studies | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi



News 17.1.2018 16:57 | updated 18.1.2018 16:42

Finnish researchers to create DNA database of 500,000 people for disease studies

Researchers at the Finnish publicly and privately-funded research project FinnGen say they want to broadly expand the number of DNA samples of Finnish residents in order to find new methods of fighting diseases.