Project at a glance

Our day to day research involves using large scale human data to identify the genetic causes of common diseases. We then work closely with other scientists, clinicians and patients to understand and apply our findings to help improve people's health. We are fortunate to be working in a fast moving and exciting field of science. This excitement comes from the increasing quantity of genome wide sequence data available at population scale and its linkage to a huge amount of information relevant to people's health. The genetic data includes information from more than a billion DNA sequence variants. The health information includes that from 100,000s to millions of people attending research studies, consenting to allow their medical records to be used for research and in some studies, from their non medical data such as that from smart phones.