Redleg68
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Researchers needed a large group of people to volunteer to have their DNA mapped and all treatment to their specific illness would be documented along with how you responded. The idea was to develop targeted medicine specific to a persons make-up. This needed to be a large group of people in order to overcome anonymities. they came to the VA in 2011 and asked for volunteers. I joined the program in 2012 and the other day I noticed the number of vets in the program, topped over 1,100,000, The collected data is sent to over 700 researchers and institutions around the world. They have been able to advance a lot treatments and have identified all sorts of things like they can now predict who will be likely get PTSD, advance cancer treatments and a whole skew of other breakthroughs. I could go on and on but if interested google it.No sir