Nature, volume 576, pages106–111 (2019)

Jeffrey D. Wall, Eric W. Stawiski, Aakrosh Ratan, Hie Lim Kim, Changhoon Kim, Ravi Gupta, Kushal Suryamohan, Elena S. Gusareva, Rikky Wenang Purbojati, Tushar Bhangale, Vadim Stepanov, Vladimir Kharkov, Markus S. Schröder, Vedam Ramprasad, Jennifer Tom, Steffen Durinck, Qixin Bei, Jiani Li, Joseph Guillory, Sameer Phalke, Analabha Basu, Jeremy Stinson, Sandhya Nair, Sivasankar Malaichamy, Nidhan K. Biswas, John C. Chambers, Keith C. Cheng, Joyner T. George, Seik Soon Khor, Jong-Il Kim, Belong Cho, Ramesh Menon, Thiramsetti Sattibabu, Akshi Bassi, Manjari Deshmukh, Anjali Verma, Vivek Gopalan, Jong-Yeon Shin, Mahesh Pratapneni, Sam Santhosh, Katsushi Tokunaga, Badrul M. Md-Zain, Kok Gan Chan, Madasamy Parani, Purushothaman Natarajan, Michael Hauser, R. Rand Allingham, Cecilia Santiago-Turla, Arkasubhra Ghosh, Santosh Gopi Krishna Gadde, Christian Fuchsberger, Lukas Forer, Sebastian Schoenherr, Herawati Sudoyo, J. Stephen Lansing, Jonathan Friedlaender, George Koki, Murray P. Cox, Michael Hammer, Tatiana Karafet, Khai C. Ang, Syed Q. Mehdi, Venkatesan Radha, Viswanathan Mohan, Partha P. Majumder, Somasekar Seshagiri, Jeong-Sun Seo, Stephan C. Schuster & Andrew S. Peterson

The underrepresentation of non-Europeans in human genetic studies so far has limited the diversity of individuals in genomic datasets and led to reduced medical relevance for a large proportion of the world’s population. Population-specific reference genome datasets as well as genome-wide association studies in diverse populations are needed to address this issue. Here we describe the pilot phase of the GenomeAsia 100K Project. This includes a whole-genome sequencing reference dataset from 1,739 individuals of 219 population groups and 64 countries across Asia.

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