Genomics in Africa: Research and Practice - June 4, 2015

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Genomics in Africa: Research and Practice - June 4, 2015

Cancer genetics education in a low- to middle-income country: Evaluation of an interactive workshop for clinicians in Kenya.
Hill JA et al. PLoS ONE 10(6) e0129852

The future of genomic medicine education in Africa 
SIw GH et al. Genome Medicine, May 2015

Stroke genomics in people of African ancestry: charting new paths.
Akinyemi RO et al. Cardiovasc J Afr 2015 Mar-Apr (2 Suppl 1) S39-49

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. 
Genome BiologyNovember 7, 2014

Genome-wide association studies in Africans and African Americans: Expanding the framework of the genomics of human traits and disease
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