- The largest number of regions and races included in any Asian reference panel
- Identification of genome diversity within Asian ethnic groups and differences in drug response
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — The precision medicine and biotechnology company Macrogen (Chairman Jung-Sun Seo, www.macrogen.com) (KOSDAQ: 038290) announced on Dec 5 that the result of its Asian genome analysis, which has been performed through GenomeAsia 100K Initiative, an international consortium, was covered on the front page on the latest Nature (article titled The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia).
The GenomeAsia 100K Initiative is a non-profit international consortium and has conducted a mass research project in order to analyze the genome data of 100,000 Asians since 2016. Participating organizations include: Macrogen (Korea) and the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH)’s Precision Medicine Center (Korea), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (Singapore), MedGenome, a genome analysis company (India) and Genentech, a subsidiary of the Roche Group (USA). Professor Jeong-Sun Seo, Chairman of Macrogen and Distinguished Professor of SNUBH so, and Professor Stephan Schuster of NTU together have led the research team as joint principal investigators.
