Abstract
GenomeAsia100K is a human genome project based at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore that aims to sequence one hundred thousand Asian genomes in an effort that addresses an ethnic bias towards Western populations in previous genomic research. GenomeAsia100K consists of a team of bioinformaticians, statisticians and population geneticists, and was initiated by the Nanyang Technological University in collaboration with industrial partners MedGenome (an Indian R&D company specializing in genomic data) and the California Biotech company Genentech. The GenomeAsia100K project is amongst the most ambitious precision medicine projects to date but it is not clear how the project will challenge or reshape understandings of ethnic and racial differences in Asian populations. Ian McGonigle, a scientist and cultural anthropologist, sat down with geneticist Stephan C. Schuster, the scientific chairman of GenomeAsia100K, to discuss the project and the implications of genomics for social identity in the 21st century.
Highlights
“Let’s Map the Gap in Genomic Data,” reads the website of GenomeAsia100K, an initiative spearheaded by Professor Stephan C
GenomeAsia100K, which consists of a team of bioinformaticians and population geneticists and was initiated by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in collaboration with industrial partners MedGenome – an Indian R&D company specializing in genetic screening – and the California Biotech company Genentech, as well as Macrogen, a genome sequencing company from Korea
The GenomeAsia100K project eventually aims to catalog the genomic data of 100,000 Asians, putting it amongst the most ambitious precision medicine projects to date
Summary
“Let’s Map the Gap in Genomic Data,” reads the website of GenomeAsia100K, an initiative spearheaded by Professor Stephan C. In Singapore, the first stage of work in the GenomeAsia100K project is to sequence 10,000 Asian genomes for ethnic stratification.
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