deCODE’s success plus the wider availability of sequencing technologies gave rise to a number of population-scale genome initiatives around the world, including many pilot programmes initiated in the last decade. We estimate more than a dozen countries today have genome programmes of a lakh genomes or more. Population-scale genome efforts have significantly diverse objectives. over-representation of certain ethnic groups in population-scale data sets). A pilot programme for population genomes in India named IndiGen provided an early view of more than a thousand genomes of individuals from cosmopolitan areas in India.

Source: The Hindu December 03, 2023 16:05 UTC