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Tens of thousands of British patients are to be invited to donate their DNA for research
Tens of thousands of British NHS patients are to be invited to donate their DNA for research as part of a project that aims to make the use of genetic data routine in the health service, The Guardian says.
About 75,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases will have their genomes sequenced during the four-year project, which David Cameron claims will transform how serious diseases are diagnosed and treated.
Cancer patients will have DNA from healthy and cancerous tissues read so that doctors can work out which mutations are driving the growth of their tumour cells.
Beyond cancer, the 100,000 Genomes Project hopes to improve diagnoses of rare diseases caused by genetic mutations.
The prime minister is expected to announce a package of deals on Friday worth £300m, including a contract with the California-based firm Illumina to provide the machines to sequence human genomes. The first few hundred patients have already donated DNA in pilot projects in London, Cambridge and Newcastle.
"This agreement will see the UK lead the world in genetic research within years," Cameron said in a statement.
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