The 1000 genomes project
Thursday, January 31st, 2008I'm absolutely thrilled that we have reached the technological level where it is possible to sequence 1000 genomes just to learn more about human genetic variation.We have learned a lot from the HapMap project about common variation and this knowledge has lead to an explosion in discoveries of genetic factors in several diseases. With actual sequencing of genomes we should also learn about less common genetic variation and who knows where that will take us?I've actually known about this project for a while from some of the people involved, but this is the first time I've seen it mentioned online, so I thought I would link to it today :)