GeneaBabble

Researchers at LDS Hospital will launch the Intermountain Genealogical Registry, a lineage-based population database containing the pedigrees of more than 10 million individuals – the largest in the United States – who have lived or whose descendants have lived in the Intermountain region of the United States. The purpose of this groundbreaking new database is to enhance the discovery of genetic factors that contribute to cardiovascular diseases through the study of a large population of patients in which cardiovascular diseases appear to cluster in certain families. [Read more]

Interesting stuff.  I may have to look a little deeper into how genealogy is being used to study genetic diseases.  I never really thought too much about it, but I’m kinda one-dimensional that way…