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SUMMARY:What has genomics ever done for us? A 20-year history of the human
  genome - Klaudia Walter\, Sanger Institute
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CONTACT:Peter Watson
DESCRIPTION:The Human Genome Project (HGP) was launched in 1990 as the wor
 ld's largest collaborative biological project to determine the three billi
 on base pairs that make up human DNA. It was completed in 2003 with 92% of
  the genome completed\, and at a cost of $2.7 billion. Since then\, thousa
 nds of genomes have been sequenced at much greater speed and at much reduc
 ed cost of $600 (or less)\; the total amount of data runs in the order of 
 petabytes (millions of gigabytes).\n\nThe UK10K Cohorts Project was an ear
 ly project (2010-2015) based on whole-genome sequence data from almost 4\,
 000 individuals to research the relationship between rare and common genet
 ic variants with a comprehensive set of quantitative measures that are rel
 evant to cardiovascular and metabolic disease. The largest whole-genome se
 quence project to date is UK BioBank (https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/) with w
 hole-genome sequence data for 500\,000 individuals that can be linked to a
  wide range of biochemistry markers\, online questionnaires\, electronic h
 ealth-related records and MR imaging data.\n
LOCATION:Lightfoot Room\, Divinity School\, St John's College\, Cambridge\
 , CB2 1TP
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