How to mine treasure troves of genetic data | Spectrum - Autism Research News

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-06

Summary:

" ... Autism Speaks is spearheading an effort called MSSNG (a name that is symbolically ‘missing’ vowels) to sequence the whole genomes of 10,000 people with autism or their family members. Half of the sequences are already available to researchers on an open platform hosted by Google. Meanwhile, the Simons Foundation (Spectrum’s parent organization) is funding the New York Genome Center to sequence the whole genomes of more than 2,600 families in the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC). These families each have one child with autism, unaffected parents and one unaffected sibling. The first stage of the project — 2,000 sequences from 500 families — is nearly complete, with 1,982 sequences already available to scientists. With funds from the National Institutes of Health, the center is also sequencing another 500 of these families and expects to have 2,000 more sequences available later this year. The ultimate aim is to sequence genomes from all 2,664 families. Together, these two efforts are generating massive amounts of data that researchers can scour for clues to the genetic basis of autism. We asked experts what they hope to learn from this treasure trove of sequences and how best to work with the communal resources ..."

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https://spectrumnews.org/opinion/cross-talk/how-to-mine-treasure-troves-of-genetic-data/

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Date tagged:

04/06/2016, 10:09

Date published:

04/06/2016, 06:09