Researchers Publish Far-Reaching Genetic Study of 1,000 UK People
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London, United Kingdom, September 24, 2015 --( Titled "The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population," the study has been led by Professor Nazneen Rahman and colleagues from the Division of Genetics & Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research and has been published on open science platform F1000Research http://f1000research.com/articles/4-883/v1.A high quality analysis pipeline was applied to the data including accurate detection of indels, a very important class of gene variation that can cause disease.“F1000Research provides a simple and effective way to make genomic data publicly available to further disease research and we hope that more members of the genomic community will embrace it.” For more information: Andrew Baud, Tala (on behalf of F1000 Research), +44 (0) 20 3397 3383 or +44 (0) 7775 715775 About F1000Research F1000Research is an open science publishing platform for life scientists that offers immediate publication and transparent peer review, avoiding editorial bias and ensuring the inclusion of all source data.London, United Kingdom, September 24, 2015 --( PR.com )-- The paper, which will be invaluable for clinical genomics and translational research, makes large-scale gene variation from exome sequence data from the UK general population, openly available for the first-time.Titled "The ICR1000 UK exome series: a resource of gene variation in an outbred population," the study has been led by Professor Nazneen Rahman and colleagues from the Division of Genetics & Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research and has been published on open science platform F1000Research http://f1000research.com/articles/4-883/v1.It includes 1,000 people in the UK, who are part of the 1958 Birth Cohort – a study which follows the lives of 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week in 1958.The study by Professor Nazneen Rahman and colleagues provides a baseline of gene variation in a general population and, unlike most published exome series, the individual exome sequences are available for use by other researchers, on application to the 1958 Birth Cohort committee.