jd writes "An international consortium of specialists in genetics have announced the 1000 Genomes Project, in which at least 1,000 people will have their genomes fully sequenced as part of an effort to discover the relationship between genetics and disease. At present, over 100 regions of DNA are known to be related to illnesses, but the maps that exist are vague and drawn from an extremely small population pool. According to the article, this results in slow, expensive and laborious studies being required to actually pinpoint causes, especially for rarer conditions. The claim is that this study is aiming to find conditions that might only appear once in every 2,000 people, though how they intend to do that with half that number is unclear, and that by doing so, they will be able to massively speed up the diagnosis of genetically-linked illnesses and improve the reliability of such a diagnosis." Link to Original Source
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