Much of the genetic research that has been used to understand diseases such as diabetes or hypertension was built with information from European people. So, for Mexican scientists that meant trying to explain the health of people with data that did not necessarily reflect the genetic diversity of the country. With that idea, OriGen was born , an initiative of TecSalud del Tecnológico de Monterrey that already collected genetic and clinical infor…
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Much of the genetic research that has been used to understand diseases such as diabetes or hypertension was built with information from European people. So, for Mexican scientists that meant trying to explain the health of people with data that did not necessarily reflect the genetic diversity of the country. With that idea, OriGen was born , an initiative of TecSalud del Tecnológico de Monterrey that already collected genetic and clinical infor…