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  • International genetics leaders meeting in Melbourne Australia have agreed to work together to create the human variome project -- a global initiative that will catalogue human gene variations, which cause disease -- and make that information freely available to researchers, clinicians and patients everywhere.

    Science 2006

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  • MaryW commented on the word variome

    If your genome Is all 6 billion DNA base pairs (the function of most of which we don't understand), and your exome is the 20,000+ genes (about 60 million base pairs) that code for protein, then your variome is a smaller subset still: it is an assortment of markers more or less evenly spaced across the genome that tend to vary from person to person; some markers fall within genes, but most do not. By early 2010 researchers had identified nearly 13 million of these markers; . . . . These marker sets (called single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNPs—"snips") were thought to capture much of the variation in human DNA, although they represented no more than 0.05 percent of the entire genome.
    Misha Angrist, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), ch. 4 (Kindle loc. 1000)

    December 17, 2016