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South Asian people have some of the highest rates of heart disease, diabetes, and poor health in the UK.
Genes & Health is a research study set up to help fight against these and other major diseases. These studies look at how genes work, and how diseases develop, in the hope that it will be possible to identify better treatments to cure or help prevent them.
By involving large numbers of local Bangladeshi and Pakistani people, the study hopes to find new ways of improving health for communities in the UK and worldwide.
Genomics is changing healthcare
Genomics is changing healthcare
Click here to read about the latest updates from Genes & Health.
Volunteers joining the study will be asked to give their consent to be contacted again, and some may be invited to take part in further studies on the basis of data gathered from their samples (Saliva) and from health record information. Each further study will have a separate informed consent process, and volunteers may take part or decline further studies as they wish whilst remaining part of the main Genes & Health study.
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