News at HSPHHSPH’s David Hunter is quoted in a Boston Globe article about an upcoming initiative at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston that will ask patients if they’d like to provide a blood sample for a massive database BWH hopes to build to study how genes affect health. Hunter, dean for academic affairs and professor in cancer prevention, says large studies such as this are necessary for researchers to turn knowledge of the human genome into actionable clinical information.
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Adding Common Genetic Variants to Breast Cancer Risk Models Offers Only Small Benefit, HSPH press release, March 17, 2010
