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Koreans launched family genome project

Revision as of 03:53, 22 March 2010 by imported>J

Two Korean families, totaling 8 people, have been fully sequenced by Korean researchers.

 -- Lee Gilya Cancer Diabetes, SamSung SDS, and Theragen Inc. --

The project aims to finish sequencing by the end of April and fully analysis results by the end of August.

The study is led by Dr. Kim Seong-Jin of LCGI who is also the first Korean human genome donor.
The bioinformatics analysis will be done by SamSung SDS and Theragen BiO Institute.