HIT Consultant April 21, 2022
What You Should Know:
– Seven Bridges, a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, as well as the Associação Genomas Brasil (Brazil Genome Association), to assist the DNA do Brasil (DNABr) project in building a reference genome that represents the genetic diversity of the Brazilian population.
– The joint effort will advance unbiased precision medicine for underrepresented populations in Brazil through the construction of a representative and accurate genome graph reference.
DNABr Project Details
Currently, the human reference genome is based primarily on sequencing data acquired from people of European ancestry, making it challenging to identify and treat diseases in the Brazilian population, whose genome is an admixture...
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