# What is the Participant Panel at Genomics England?

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Podcast: [Behind the Genes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/behind-the-genes-3509739)
Published: 2026-04-15T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://genomicsengland.podbean.com/e/what-is-the-participant-panel-at-genomics-england/
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## Resource

In this explainer episode, we’ve asked Lisa Beaton, Panel Member and Parent Representative for SWAN UK, to tell us about the Participant Panel. You can also find a series of short videos explaining some of the common terms you might encounter about genomics on our YouTube channel. If you’ve got any questions, or have any other topics you’d like us to explain, let us know on podcast@genomicsengland.co.uk. You can download the transcript or read it below. Florence: What is the Participant Panel at Genomics England? My name is Florence Cornish and today I'm joined with Lisa Beaton, who is a Parent Representative for Syndrome Without a Name, Swan UK, and a member of the Participant Panel. And we have a special episode today because it is to celebrate the 10th anniversary, so a decade of the Participant Panel at Genomics England. Lisa, I think it would be good to start with a quick rundown of what the Participant Panel is. If you had to describe it in a few sentences, what would you say? Lisa: Ooh, that's tricky actually, to cram all our wealth of expertise and knowledge into that, I guess in just a few sentences. But essentially, we are a group of lay people who have all contributed by way of being on genomic studies, such as the 100,000 Genome, for our data to be held in the NGRL, the National Genomic Research Library. We may have joined because our children or another family member have a disorder or a syndrome or a condition that requires further genetic testing. So, there are panel members who represent from different cancer communities, there's panel members who have connections with rare disease, and then there's panel members like myself who come from the undiagnosed community, where we joined to essentially try and find a diagnosis in respect of our daughter. The m…

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