Scripps Health and Complete Genomics Announce Collaboration Aimed at Unlocking Genetic Secrets of Healthy Aging

Complete Genomics Inc. GNOM, and the not-for-profit Scripps Health system today announced a major collaboration that will help further the Wellderly Study, a landmark scientific research initiative aimed at unlocking the genetic secrets of lifelong health. Under the collaboration, Complete Genomics will sequence, at its own cost, the whole human genomes of 1,000 participants in the Wellderly Study. The Wellderly Study is headed by Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer Dr. Eric J. Topol, who has spent the past four years recruiting healthy elderly individuals who are at least 80 years old and free from major diseases and long-term medications. The median age of this study group is 87, and participants range up to 108 years old.