Personal Genome Diagnostics is the first company to obtain a license to materials from a unique community registry and biorepository managed by Duke CTSI. The license marks a milestone for the MURDOCK Study, a longitudinal population health research program that enrolled its first participant in 2009. The registry and biorepository include samples and associated data from over 12,000 participants, based at CTSI’s Duke Kannapolis research site, now a part of the new Center for Precision Heal...| North Carolina Research Campus
The MURDOCK Study Community Registry and Biorepository is a groundbreaking 12,526-participant community-based longitudinal cohort recruited from a 20-zip code region in the southeastern United States centered on the City of Kannapolis, N.C. and encompassing Cabarrus County, N.C.| ctsi.duke.edu
Through a collaboration designed to advance research in health equity and social drivers of health, the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Center for Precision Health have partnered with the Center for Nursing Research at the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) to bring more than 20,000 biological samples and linked data from a community-based registry at Duke Kannapolis to investigators at DUSON.| North Carolina Research Campus