The health ministry may set up a data center to analyze the genomes of dementia patients as part of efforts to better treat the brain disorder, ministry sources said Wednesday.
Using artificial intelligence to interpret a vast amount of genome data, the full set of an person's genetic information, the facility would be the nation's first such hub, the sources said.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will request outlays to finance the project under the state budget for fiscal 2018.