Genome India Project : 10,000 Indian Genomes Sequencing
The Genome India Project recently announced that it had finished sequencing 10,000 Indian genomes.
- Genome India Project is a pan-India initiative focused on the whole genome sequencing of representative populations across India.
- The goal is to start with and execute whole genome sequencing and subsequent data analysis of 10,000 individuals representing the country’s diverse population.
- This is a mission-mode, multi-institution consortium project, the first of its kind in India, supported and funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
- Genome is the complete set of genetic information in an organism.
- In living organisms, the genome is stored in long molecules of DNA called chromosomes.
- In humans, the genome consists of23 pairs of chromosomes located in the cell’s nucleus, as well as a small chromosome in the cell’s mitochondria.
