This film documents the debate 'Health and Genomics: What's the Score with Polygenic Scores?', held at Battle of Ideas festival.
The debate was produced and chaired by Sandy Starr, deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust (the charity that publishes BioNews).
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
The panel speakers are:
- Professor Sir Peter Donnelly, founder and chief executive of Genomics plc
- Dr Toby Andrew, lecturer in human genetics at Imperial College London
- Nicky Drury, principal genetic counsellor at Nottingham Regional Clinical Genetics Service
This film was made by the education charity WORLDwrite.
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