[HapMap announcements] International HapMap Consortium expands mapping efforts

[Lalitha Krishnan]

Dear Hapmap Announcements list subscribers,

The International HapMap Consortium, boosted by an additional 3.3 
million in public-private support, announces plans to create an even 
more powerful map of human genetic variation than originally envisioned. 
The map will accelerate the discovery of genes related to common 
diseases, such as asthma, cancer, diabetes and heart disease.  The 
consortium's new goal is to build an improved version of the HapMap that 
is about five times denser than the original plan.  The new development, 
enabled by a partnership among multiple funding sources, will expand the 
effort and test virtually the entire known catalog of human variation on 
the HapMap samples. This will increase the density of SNP "signposts" 
across the genome from the current average of one every 3,000 bases to 
about one every 600 bases.  

The  press release announcing the expansion of the mapping effort can be 
found at our project web site www.hapmap.org/press_release.html  and the 
NIH site http://www.genome.gov/13014173


Lalitha Krishnan
HapMap DCC Group
Cold Spring Harbor Lab