NYGC Psychiatric Disease Database Project Aims to Kickstart Precision Medicine for Mental Illness

Researchers from the New York Genome Center, working with the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and a group of local medical centers, plan to build a vast clinico-genomic database focused on severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The aim is to collect and collate the information necessary to enable precision medicine for these illnesses, including tools for more accurate diagnosis and prognosis, and to build a resource for drug companies hoping to advance new therapies.

Source: https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/nygc-psychiatric-disease-database-project-aims-kickstart-precision-medicine-mental#.YrTVQ3bMKUk