Population-scale metabolomic and genomic prediction of common diseases
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Healthcare systems face a cost crisis as they try to provide an increasingly wide range of transformative but expensive treatments to older, sicker populations. Better prevention that complements new treatments is essential. I will present metabolomics and genetics data from half a million blood samples from three national biobanks, and show that metabolomic risk scores predict future risk of disease better than genetics for most diseases that cause highest morbidity in Europe. I will show targeted analyses of predicting inflammatory bowel disease risk to complement these cross-disease analyses. Finally, I will describe a pathway to real-world implementation of ‘omic-enabled prevention.
Date: 2 October 2023, 12:00 (Monday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Barrett (Chief Scientific Officer of Nightingale Health)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS)
Organisers: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Jo Silva (NDORMS)
Organiser contact email address: doris.chan@kennedy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Yang Luo (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Part of: Kennedy Institute Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Doris Chan