NEWS LETTER - UK Biobank plays a vital role in managing a global pandemic

Getting your kids, and their kids, involved For the first time ever, UK Biobank invited past infection across the UK during the first wave participants and their adult children and of the pandemic and the start of the second. [...] Unleashing the imaginations of the world’s best scientific minds Over the next 5 years, the UK Biobank Funding of £20 million was provided database will grow to 15 petabytes, which by the Wellcome Trust and, following is more than 4 times the entire Netflix a careful and open tender process, catalogue! This is largely due to the whole DNAnexus, in collaboration with Amazon genome sequencing projec. [...] UK Biobank has made available exome The project has set off to a flying start data for 200,000 participants, which and sequencing of the first 150,000 linked to existing detailed genetic genomes has already been completed and lifestyle data within the database, (in addition to the 50,000 that were has created a uniquely rich dataset sequenced through a vanguard project to gain a greater understand. [...] A team of researchers at the University of Leicester obtained £2 million funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC), British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to perform this study, which is the largest of its kind. [...] The researchers studied over 1,000 genetic variations known to predispose people to obesity and found that the risk of chronic kidney disease is positively associated with fat deposits all over the body, both under the skin and around the organs.