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Wednesday, July 18, 2001

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find related articles. powered by google. BioMedNet For haplotype mappers, deja vu all over again
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"A US government-centered effort to gain useful information from a map of single nucleotype polymorphisms (SNPs) might be late off the starting block, again chasing a private effort toward the same goal. That conclusion is emerging even as the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) convenes a two-day planning meeting here, involving the SNP consortium of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as academic leaders."

"Larry Thompson, chief of the communications and public liaison branch of NHGRI, told BioMedNet News that there is no Haplotype Project currently underway, and this week's meeting (which Brooks had billed as the "Haplotype Meeting") will examine the opportunities that the science presents. "This is a natural extension of efforts that are currently underway and which we believe will help identify genes and their relationship to disease," he said. "How this project will take shape is a big unknown at the moment.""

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"An effort called the SNP Consortium is also underway to identify and interpret individual variations. Looking at SNPs individually can help determine predisposition to disease and potential reactions to drugs."

""It's like the differences between buses and cars," Venter explained."

"These are difficult concepts for non-scientists to understand, but Collins said everyone has an interest in knowing about this type of research."

""Trust me, it's going to be a very powerful way to understand genetic disease," he said."



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