SCIENCE: Singapore researchers create world’s largest Asian genetic databank
(From left) Professor Liu Jianjun, deputy executive director and senior group leader (human genetics) at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS); Professor Patrick Tan, GIS executive director; and Professor Cheng Ching-Yu, principal clinician scientist at the Singapore National Eye Centre’s Singapore Eye Research Institute, with their genome sequencing equipment at the GIS.ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO / Timothy Goh
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SINGAPORE – Researchers in Singapore have created the world’s largest genetic databank of Asian populations, which could help scientists and doctors better diagnose rare diseases, find the causes of chronic ailments and help us better understand the country’s history.
The study contains the completed whole-genome sequencing data of around 5,000 Singaporeans, and was published in top biomedical journal Cell on Thursday (Oct 17).
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