List of population genetics projects

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This is a list of population genetics projects.

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Multiple populations

Population based projects

CountryNameDetailsReference
United Kingdom UK10K 4000 healthy British and 6000 with extreme health problems [1]
Netherlands GoNL 250 trios (father, mother and child) of Dutch descent [2]
South Africa NA1 from Southern Kalahari, 3 from Northern Kalahari, 1 Bantu from South Africa [3]
Singapore Singapore Genome Variation Project 268 individuals from the Chinese, Malay, and Indian population groups in Southeast Asia [4]
Italy SardiNIA Project 2,000 sequenced Sardinian people [5]
Germany PopGen (German)Genotyping of 10,000 German people [6]
Ukraine GenomeUkraine Whole genome sequences of 97 Ukrainians from Ukraine [7]

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References

  1. Kaye, Jane, et al. "Managing clinically significant findings in research: the UK10K example." European Journal of Human Genetics (2014). http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ejhg2013290a.html
  2. Boomsma, Dorret I., et al. "The Genome of the Netherlands: design, and project goals." European Journal of Human Genetics 22.2 (2014): 221-227. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v22/n2/full/ejhg2013118a.html
  3. Schuster, Stephan C., et al. "Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa." Nature 463.7283 (2010): 943-947. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7283/full/nature08795.html
  4. Teo, YY; Sim, X; Ong, RT; Tan, AK; Chen, J; Tantoso, E; Small, KS; Ku, CS; Lee, EJ; Seielstad, M; Chia, KS (2009). "Singapore Genome Variation Project: a haplotype map of three Southeast Asian populations". Genome Res. 19 (11): 2154–62. doi:10.1101/gr.095000.109. PMC   2775604 . PMID   19700652.
  5. List of publication from the Sardinia project: https://sardinia.irp.nia.nih.gov/Publications/publications.html
  6. Krawczak, M., et al. "PopGen: population-based recruitment of patients and controls for the analysis of complex genotype-phenotype relationships." Public Health Genomics 9.1 (2006): 55-61.
  7. Oleksyk et al. 2021, Genome diversity in Ukraine, GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 1, giaa159, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa159