Second-generation human genome map to shed new light on disease

October 30, 2007

The International HapMap Consortium, a public-private effort to identify and catalogue genetic similarities and differences in humans, this month unveiled its second-generation version of the human genome; a map three times more detailed than the original version released in 2005. The new map will help scientists to unpick the complex gene-environment interactions that have over time shaped the human genome, helping them to better detect genetic variants involved in common diseases, wrote the consortium in two papers published in the journal Nature.
(BioNews)