Progress in genomic medicine threatens to leave behind medically underserved communities, including the predominantly African American population in west Tennessee as well as the Appalachian population in east Tennessee. This talk will focus on the UTHSC 100K Genomes Project, which is a statewide initiative to study how genomic variants affect health and disease. We currently have over 32,000 subjects enrolled along with exome sequence and SNP data, linked to electronic medical record data, on over 13,000. I will review studies that are currently underway in asthma, epilepsy, and cardiomyopathy and would welcome a discussion of how ETSU researchers might participate and lead studies in their own fields of interest.
For individuals who wish to learn more about the BIG project, visit: https://www.etsu.edu/com/ciidi/clinical-research/projects.php#big