The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa.

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Published in Nature on December 03, 2014

Authors

Deepti Gurdasani1, Tommy Carstensen1, Fasil Tekola-Ayele2, Luca Pagani3, Ioanna Tachmazidou4, Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas4, Savita Karthikeyan1, Louise Iles5, Martin O Pollard4, Ananyo Choudhury6, Graham R S Ritchie7, Yali Xue4, Jennifer Asimit4, Rebecca N Nsubuga8, Elizabeth H Young1, Cristina Pomilla1, Katja Kivinen4, Kirk Rockett9, Anatoli Kamali8, Ayo P Doumatey2, Gershim Asiki8, Janet Seeley8, Fatoumatta Sisay-Joof10, Muminatou Jallow10, Stephen Tollman11, Ephrem Mekonnen12, Rosemary Ekong13, Tamiru Oljira14, Neil Bradman15, Kalifa Bojang10, Michele Ramsay16, Adebowale Adeyemo2, Endashaw Bekele17, Ayesha Motala18, Shane A Norris19, Fraser Pirie18, Pontiano Kaleebu8, Dominic Kwiatkowski20, Chris Tyler-Smith4, Charles Rotimi2, Eleftheria Zeggini4, Manjinder S Sandhu1

Author Affiliations

1: 1] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK [2] Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.
2: Centre for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 12 South Drive, MSC 5635, Bethesda, Maryland 20891-5635, USA.
3: 1] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK [2] Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
4: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.
5: 1] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK [2] Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK [3] Department of Archaeology, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK.
6: Sydney Brenner Institute of Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown 2193, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
7: 1] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK [2] Vertebrate Genomics, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
8: Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Plot 51-57 Nakiwogo Road, Uganda.
9: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
10: Medical Research Council Unit, Atlantic Boulevard, SerrekundaPO Box 273, Banjul, The Gambia.
11: 1] Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Unit, School of Public Health, Education Campus, 27 St Andrew's Road, Parktown 2192, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa [2] INDEPTH Network, 38/40 Mensah Wood Street, East Legon, PO Box KD 213, Kanda, Accra, Ghana.
12: Institute of Biotechnology, Addis Ababa University, Entoto Avenue, Arat Kilo, 16087 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
13: Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment, University College, London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
14: University of Haramaya, Department of Biology, PO Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
15: Henry Stewart Group, 28/30 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HN, UK.
16: 1] Sydney Brenner Institute of Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown 2193, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa [2] Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service, C/O Hospital and de Korte Streets, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa [3] School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa.
17: Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Arat Kilo Campus, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
18: Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 719 Umbilo Road, Congella, Durban 4013, South Africa.
19: Department of Paediatrics, University of Witwatersrand, 7 York Road, Parktown 2198, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
20: 1] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK [2] Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.

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