Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A community health initiative that began in 2007, Geisinger’s MyCode has grown into a biobank made up of data from more than ...

A study conducted by Geisinger Health System in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) has found that a life-threatening genetic disorder known as Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is ...

DANVILLE, Pa., Nov. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Geisinger is today observing an initial milestone of reaching more than 500 of its patients with clinical genetic risks through the MyCode ...

Move over Iceland and England. Geisinger Health System marked a major milestone last month – on National DNA Day – by announcing that 100,000 recruits have signed up for the health system’s major ...

DANVILLE, Pa. – Genetic information collected through research studies like Geisinger’s MyCode Community Health Initiative can provide important—and previously unknown—information to participants ...

DANVILLE — People differ from one another in millions of ways. For starters, there is eye color, hair color, body build, and tendencies toward certain diseases and conditions. We know that genes ...

MAHONING TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- We've reported on a Geisinger research project called MyCode, which uses a person's DNA as part of a large-scale research project. Hospital officials announced Tuesday ...

The Geisinger Health System’s MyCode Community Health Initiative is studying patient samples of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the simple but complex storehouse of biological information within humans, ...

Geisinger Health System CEO David Feinberg, MD, and other top executives said Geisinger’s gene sequencing program is helping to better project adverse health issues in the short-term and the hospital ...

DANVILLE, Pa., March 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists at the Regeneron Genetics Center, along with investigators at Geisinger, have discovered a gene variant associated with a ...

Geisinger Health System has enlisted 100,000 people for its genomic study and did so more quickly than expected. Attracting so many volunteers over two years has prompted program executives to raise ...