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10,000 Genomes Project
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- The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) officially announced the completion of the ‘10,000 genome’ project.
- It is an attempt to create a reference database of whole-genome sequences out of India.
- India first sequenced a complete human genome in 2006.
- Creating a database of the diversity of India’s population is seen as a key step to being able to learn about genetic variants that are unique to India’s population groups and use that to customise drugs and therapies.
- The Indian population of 1.3 billion consists of over 4,600 population groups, and many of them are endogamous.
- The United Kingdom, China, and the United States are among the countries that have programs to sequence at least 1,00,000 of their genomes.
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