LONDON -- The move to set up UK Biobank, a national genomics database with samples from 500,000 people, has been slammed as a "politically driven project" by the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons.
The 45 million [pounds sterling] (US$71 million) project, billed as the world's biggest study of the role of nature and nurture in health and disease, is designed to allow researchers to uncover the genetic and environmental factors that lead to common diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. But the committee said last week that funds were allocated to UK Biobank "before the scientific questions over its value and methodology …
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