21st
June
2008
1000 Genomes Project adds 3 new contributers
posted in DNA Sequence, Medicine |
454 Life Sciences, Applied Biosystems, and Illumina Inc have joined an international team to help sequence the entire human genome of more than 1000 people worldwide. Complete sequence data will give scientists a broader picture of rarer diseases not identified via the HapMap catalog that was released in 2003.
The genetic blueprints, or genomes, of any two humans are more than 99 percent the same. Still, the small fraction of genetic material that varies among people holds valuable clues to individual differences in susceptibility to disease, response to drugs and sensitivity to environmental factors.
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