“In its journey to improve the lives of Veterans through health care research and innovation, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently reached a major milestone with enrollment of its 750,000th Veteran partner in the Million Veteran Program (MVP) — a national, voluntary research initiative that helps VA study how genes affect the health of Veterans.”
“The milestone, which was reached April 18, is the result of years of outreach, recruitment and enrollment efforts to help to bring precision medicine to the forefront of VA health care…”
“The enrollment milestone is significant because as more participants enroll, researchers have a more representative sample of the entire Veteran population to help improve health care for everyone. Enrollees in the program include Veterans from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam. MVP also has the largest representation of minorities of any genomic cohort in the U.S.” Read the full press release here.
Source: VA’s voluntary research genetics program reaches major milestone with 750,000 Veteran partners – May 13, 2019. VA.
