In order to avoid mistakes in the ambitious children's research project, a research team composed of human geneticists, medical researchers and other experts submitted a blueprint to the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 17 and plans to recruit 100 million Americans for genetic and long-term health study. The study, which lasts for 10 years or longer, will start recruiting the first volunteers next year and will become the world's largest of its kind.
For the NIH director Francis Collins, the for precision medical plan "(PMI) project is the ideas he proposed in 11 years ago. "I am very excited to see this dream come true." "It will be a broad and powerful resource for researchers working in the field of health care," Collins said in a statement released after receiving the blueprint."
In January, Obama called for a nationwide large-scale study, the use of genetic and health information to achieve personal customized medical. Several countries, including the UK, Estonia, also have a similar group of people (or the same group) to study the project, collect the DNA and health information of the volunteers to store - which is also called the "biological"". But for the United States, because of the lack of focusing on health care system, the design of such a large-scale study has many difficulties and disputes. For example, after a recent setback a 100,000 children's research program, NIH, was re - restored.
In order to implement the new PMI research, Collins seeks help to the NIH director of the Advisory Committee. In a report of 17, the Commission said that the scale of the large-scale plan proposed by Obama, considered the research project will be beneficial to identify genes and biological markers of disease risk and drug response. The report said, the participants will be mobile device testing, the study of environmental exposure and physical activity will affect health.
As expected, the Council's advisers urged the NIH to limit funding for research, such as health care providers who have chosen to have an electronic health record in the next 4 years. These providers may include millions of veteran project like Kaiser Permanente, the agency has recruited 24.5 million people for health research, the Veterans Health Administration. The committee said the project would open to anyone who lives in the United States if they are willing to participate in the program, to contribute to blood samples, to carry out clinical tests and to share their health information. The two recruiting methods will involve volunteers from all ages, including children, and they may have a total enrollment of more than 1,000,000 people.