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This third Human Variome Project Meeting will formally discuss the next steps to be taken and planned for the project particularly surrounding “Implementation and Integration”. The aim is to determine the major ways in which the recommendations and actions from the first meetings can be best implemented in a global collaborative context to prepare the systems necessary to routinely and systematically gather the deluge of variations in genes causing disease (mutations) now being discovered, as there will be at least, 100 to 1000 mutations in each of the 20,000 human genes. This meeting will bring together key individuals who are currently working on the necessary components and the development of the systems relevant to the task, including those working on pilot systems. Individuals include bioinformaticians, clinical geneticists, researchers, counsellors, database curators, diagnostic laboratory heads, common disease variation experts, genome sequencers, support groups and will address and include topics impacting on:- clinical data collection, genetic data collection, distributed databasing (country and gene specific), country specific collection, key pilot/current projects, central databasing, transfer to central databases, incentives for databasing, ethics of databasing and funding. We are looking for anyone interested in collaborating in this area to attend the meeting and abstracts are invited. Presentations will be chosen from those who have or are planning systems which are relevant to the collection and display of “all mutations in all genes from all countries”. Chairs will be asked to document projects currently underway and to nominate new collaborative projects and where possible nominate the collaborators. Chairs will also be asked to develop projects leading to standards which can be developed and accepted. Space is limited to 200 so please register early to be assured of a place. You might also like to attend one of the concurrent satellite meetings being held on the 10th May in the same venue Satellite Meetings
Professor Richard Cotton
Convenor, Human Variome Project
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