South Korea and the United States have agreed to launch a joint study on dementia.<br />The U.S. National Institutes of Health will invest a record eight-point-five million dollars into the research.<br />Park Se-young has more.<br />The National Research Center for Dementia has an average brain map of Koreans.<br />To find genes that cause dementia, U.S. researchers are going to decrypt the more than four-thousand Korean genomes secured by the research center.<br /><br />"It's very clear. If you want to understand the basis of the disease in Koreans, you have to study Koreans, not just study people from the United States and Europe."<br /><br />The U.S. National Institutes of Health will invest nearly eight-point-five million dollars over five years for joint research on dementia with Korea, …the first foreign investment of over 500-thousand dollars by the agency.<br />Korea will carry out the largest disease genome analysis project in the country so far.<br /><br />"This will be Korea's first whole genome sequencing related to a major disease. This means we'll be able to secure the technical platform for analyzing even tiny changes made to dementia-causing genes."<br /><br />The Korean research center has biomedical big data from more than ten-thousand people aged 60 and above.<br />The genome analysis project is expected to lay the foundation for personalized treatment of dementia …based on individual genetic factors.<br />Park Se-young, Arirang News.<br />
