How to catch all those mutations—the report of the Third Human Variome Project Meeting, UNESCO Paris, May 2010

✍ Scribed by Maija R.J. Kohonen-Corish; Jumana Y. Al-Aama; Arleen D. Auerbach; Myles Axton; Carol Isaacson Barash; Inge Bernstein; Christophe Béroud; John Burn; Fiona Cunningham; Garry R. Cutting; Johan T. den Dunnen; Marc S. Greenblatt; Jim Kaput; Michael Katz; Annika Lindblom; Finlay Macrae; Donna Maglott; Gabriela Möslein; Sue Povey; Raj Ramesar; Sue Richards; Daniela Seminara; María-Jesús Sobrido; Sean Tavtigian; Graham Taylor; Mauno Vihinen; Ingrid Winship; Richard G.H. Cotton; on behalf of contributors to the Human Variome Project Meeting

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1059-7794
• DOI: 10.1002/humu.21379

✦ Synopsis

The third Human Variome Project (HVP) Meeting ''Integration and Implementation'' was held under UNESCO Patronage in Paris, France, at the UNESCO Headquarters May 10-14, 2010. The major aims of the HVP are the collection, curation, and distribution of all human genetic variation affecting health. The HVP has drawn together disparate groups, by country, gene of interest, and expertise, who are working for the common good with the shared goal of pushing the boundaries of the human variome and collaborating to avoid unnecessary duplication. The meeting addressed the 12 key areas that form the current framework of HVP activities: