Inside Precision Medicine August 5, 2024
The Singapore National Precision Medicine Program will sequence 10,000 genomes in a collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies with a view to better understanding local genetic diversity.
Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE) runs the National Program and have set up the collaboration to develop a database of genetic structural variants across the three main population groups in Singapore, namely, people of Chinese, Malay and Indian ancestry.
Structural variants can be behind conditions such as Charcot-Marie Tooth disease. Detecting most structural variants is not possible with standard short read genetic sequencing, but Oxford Nanopore’s long read technology allows these types of disease-associated mutations and others to be characterized.
PRECISE was set up in 2020 to help make the Singaporean government’s precision medicine...
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