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How a Genetic Map of 32,000 New Yorkers Could Improve Health in the City
New York City’s genetic diversity makes it a great place to tailor healthcare to the individual.
The genetic makeup of New York City is a vast web of stories and relationships—migrations, couplings, clusterings, undetected syndromes, and bodily boons. That’s what makes the city an incredible laboratory for the next frontier of healthcare: medicine tailored to you and your genes.
So says Eimear Kenny, professor and genetic researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Kenny and PhD candidate Gillian Belbin study neighborhood-level human movement patterns across New York City, using, among other things, the genetic samples of 32,000 New Yorkers.