Genoma

’1000 genomes barrier’ broken

Will help researchers interpret genetic changes in people with disease

November 1, 2012

The distribution of rare and common variants (credit: /Nature)

A landmark project that has sequenced 1,092 human genomes from individuals around the world will help researchers to interpret the genetic changes in people with disease.

This first study to break the “1000 genomes barrier” will enable scientists to begin to examine genetic variations at the scale of the populations of individual countries, as well as guiding them in their search for the rare genetic variations related to many diseases./.../