The Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (STIAC) in its first meeting announced that India will be a part of the ‘GenomeAsia 100k’ project.
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Objective of the GenomeAsia 100k project, first announced in 2016, is to sequence the whole genomes of 100k Asians, including 50,000 Indians.
It is being led out of the National Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
The project is similar to the projects in the United Kingdom, China, Japan and Australia and the information from this will be used to improve health by designing ‘personalised medicine.’
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Department of Biotechnology would be closely associated with the project.
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