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SUMMARY:What can we learn from sequencing thousands of human genomes? - Ri
 chard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
DTSTART:20130205T181500Z
DTEND:20130205T193000Z
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CONTACT:James Scott-Brown
DESCRIPTION:New DNA sequencing technologies have lowered costs per base se
 quenced by five orders of magnitude since the reference human genome was c
 ompleted 10 years ago.  Taking advantage of this\, projects such as the\n1
 000 Genomes Project and UK10K are sequencing the genomes of thousands of p
 eople to study genetic variation and its relationship to the differences w
 e observe between people at the macroscopic level.  Using the same basic t
 echnologies we can also now collect unprecedented amounts of data about ge
 ne and genome function.  Beyond the data\, how will this change our knowle
 dge of human biology\, and will the possibility of obtaining personal geno
 me sequences have major consequences for individuals?
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre
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