Researchers conduct comprehensive genomic study of sub-Saharan Africans

Researchers conduct comprehensive genomic study of sub-Saharan Africans





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Genomics in Africa: Research and Practice

NIH News:  Researchers conduct comprehensive genomic study of sub-Saharan Africans - New data resource will enhance disease research and genomic diversity studies (December 4, 2014)

The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa. 
Deepti Gurdasani et al. Nature, December 3, 2014

Genomics: African dawn. 
Raj Ramesar. Nature, December 3, 2014

Genetic diversity of Sub-Saharan Africa revealed, by Rebecca Morelle, BBC News, Dec 4

NIH awards $17 million in grants to augment genomics research in Africa. Africa research capacity to be enhanced through expanded H3Africa program (2013)

Empowering African genomics for infectious disease control. 
Onikepe A Folarin et al. Genome Biology November 7, 2014

Genome-wide association studies in Africans and African Americans: Expanding the framework of the genomics of human traits and disease
Peprah E.et al Public Health Genomics, January 2015

The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative aims to facilitate a contemporary research approach to the study of genomics and environmental determinants of common diseases