"Nothing about us, without us" National Indigenous genomics initiative launch A national centre launched today will bring the benefits of genomics medicine to Indigenous Australians, who still have a life expectancy 10 years less that the general population. "80 per cent of this life expectancy gap is due to chronic disease," says Alex Brown, Lead of The Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics (ALIGN) and Professor of Indigenous Genomics at the Telethon Kids Institute and the Australian National University.

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