The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia

• Main Authors: Wall, Jeffrey D., Stawiski, Eric W., Ratan, Aakrosh, Kim, Hie Lim, Kim, Changhoon, Gupta, Ravi, Suryamohan, Kushal, Gusareva, Elena S., Purbojati, Rikky Wenang, Bhangale, Tushar, Stepanov, Vadim, Kharkov, Vladimir, Schröder, Markus S., Ramprasad, Vedam, Tom, Jennifer, Durinck, Steffen, Bei, Qixin, Li, Jiani, Guillory, Joseph, Phalkek Sameer, Basu, Analabha, Stinson, Jeremy, Nair, Sandhya, Malaichamy, Sivasankar, Biswas, Nidhan K., Chambers, John C., Cheng, Keith C, George, Joyner T., Khor, Seik Soon, Kim, Jong-Il, Cho, Belong, Menon, Ramesh, Sattibabu, Thiramsett, Bassi, Akshi, Deshmukh, Manjari, Verma, Anjali, Gopalan, Vivek, Shin, Jong-Yeon, Pratapneni, Mahesh, Santhosh, Sam, Tokunaga, Katsushi, Badrul M. Md-Zain, Chan, Kok Gan, Parani, Madasamy, Natarajan, Purushothaman, Hauser, Michael, Allingham, R. Rand, Santiago-Turla, Ghosh, Arkasubhra, Gadde, Santosh Gopi Krishna, Fuchsberger, Christian, Forer, Lukas, Schoenherr, Sebastian, Sudoyo, Herawati, Lansing, J. Stephen, Friedlaender, Jonathan, Koki, George, Cox, Murray P., Hammer, Michael, Karafet, Tatiana, Ang, Khai C., Syed Q. Mehdi, Radha, Venkatesan, Mohan, Viswanathan, Majumder, Partha P, Seshagiri, Somasekar, Seo, Jeong-Sun, Schuster, Stephan C., Peterson, Andrew S.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Asia; Genetic Discoveries
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142742

The underrepresentation of non-Europeans in human genetic studies so far has limited the diversity of individuals in genomic datasets and led to reduced medical relevance for a large proportion of the world’s population. Population-specific reference genome datasets as well as genome-wide associatio...