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March 8, 2023 31 mins

Did you know that any two human beings are 99.9% identical? Learn more from two experts in population genomics, the large-scale comparison of DNA sequences of populations and how groups are related over time. Understand the drivers of disease and how genetics affects our risks across the population. Discover how researchers are moving population genomics from the research bench to the clinical practice and its importance to individualized medicine.

Podcast guests are:

Matthew Ferber, Ph.D., a Clinical Molecular Geneticist and director of the Mayo Clinic GeneGuide Laboratory and Sir Rory Collins, FMedSci FRS, principal investigator and chief executive of the UK Biobank.

Please note that since the recording of this podcast, Matthew Ferber, Ph.D., has taken a role outside Mayo Clinic.

 

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