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Monday, January 26, 2009  



Personal Genome Project (PGP)
http://www.personalgenomes.org/

In an unprecedented achievement, the Human Genome Project provided the first drafts of nearly complete human genome sequences in 2001 after more than a decade of effort by scientists worldwide. This information is now being used to advance medicine, human biology, and knowledge of human origins. They foresee a day when many individuals will want to get their own genome sequenced so that they may use this information to understand such things as their individual risk profiles for disease, their physical and biological characteristics, and their personal ancestries. To get to this point will require a critical mass of interested users, tools for obtaining and interpreting genome information, and supportive policy, research, and service communities. To catalyze these developments, they launched the Personal Genome Project (PGP). The PGP hopes to make personal genome sequencing more affordable, accessible, and useful for humankind. They aim to enroll 100,000 informed participants from the general public. Participants may volunteer to publicly share their DNA sequence and other personal information for research and education. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

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