Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation now has one of the world’s fastest DNA sequencers, paving the way for greater insights into everything from Alzheimer’s disease to cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation now has one of the world’s fastest DNA sequencers, paving the way for greater insights into everything from Alzheimer’s disease to cancer
March 9, 2021
Dr. Wayne Grody (left), MD, PhD, professor in the departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics and Human Genetics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and Salpy Akaragian (right), PhD, RN, director emeritus, UCLA Health. (Photos provided by Drs. Grody and Akaragian.)
In 2020, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA provided a seed grant to the Armenia Medical Genomics Project to sequence and interpret DNA samples collected from Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Studying very ancient populations that have not interbred with others is also valuable in human genetics…Unfortunately, because Armenia is such a small country, it has been ignored by human geneticists up until now.” Dr. Wayne Grody