Tuesday, January 1, 2019

SPECIES OF THE MONTH: JANUARY 2019

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species:
Homo sapiens

A group of Indian scientists and companies are involved with a 100k GenomeAsia project, led out of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, to sequence the whole genomes of 100k Asians, including 50,000 Indians.

This was among the key decisions taken at the 1st meeting of Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (STIAC). The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Department of Biotechnology would be closely associated with the project.

Ever since the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2009 announced that it had sequenced the genome of an Indian, then making India one of six countries to achieve such a feat, several research labs have analysed genes from Indians for disease susceptibility.
 

Principal Scientific Adviser and Chair of the Council, K. Vijay Raghavan, said the genome initiative will have to move at two different levels. The Council acts as a coordinator between several ministries to work on projects and missions and is scheduled to meet once a month.

Website: http://www.genomeasia100k.com


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