Reviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk - associated with disease than protective.
A detailed look
at thousands of genomes finds that Ashkenazim — who make up roughly 80 % of the world's Jews, including 90 % of those in America and half of those in Israel — ultimately came not from the Middle East, but from Western Europe, perhaps Italy.
San Diego - based Illumina revealed a $ 1 million machine today that can sequence tens
of thousands of genomes each year.
In total,
thousands of genomes will be sequenced within the projects.
If the project meets its fundamental goal,
thousands of genomes will be sampled, many of them completely sequenced to high coverage.
Dubbed the HiSeq X, each machine can sequence tens of
thousands of genomes a year by handling more data at once.