4 October 2016 - The United States is going to analyze the genetic information of more than one million Americans. The United Kingdom has a 100,000 Genomes Project and Australia is following suit with its own plan to decode 100,000 genomes.

Private enterprise has skin in the game too: J. Craig Venter’s Human Longevity Inc. will sequence one million genomes by 2020. There are even non-profit initiatives such as Harvard University’s Personal Genome Project and at the University of Toronto that are collecting genomic data from volunteers.

Yet, as the world embraces precision medicine and funds ambitious cohort studies, Canada remains largely on the sidelines. It’s a shame.

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