2008 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2008. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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The human genome project was a huge endeavor that involved many contributors. Is there anything in the works for another project on this same scale?
     Kris Wetterstrand, M.S.: Working with the Sequences, Maps and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Libraries Program and the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project. The Haplotype Map (HapMap) was a large-scale project. Other projects of this size that are underway right now are: The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), the 1000 Genomes Project and the ENCODE Project.
Fairmont State University in WV (Higher Education teacher)

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