Published on 17 Feb 2025
• The Genome India Project recently announced that it had finished sequencing 10,000 Indian genomes.
• Launched in 2020, Genome India Project is a Centre-backed, Department of Biotechnology’s (DBT) initiative to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes in three years and create a database.
• About 20 institutions across India are involved in the project though the analysis and coordination is done out of the Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore.
• Some of the priority areas are Precision health, Rare genetic disorders, Mutation spectrum of genetic and complex diseases in the Indian population, Genetic Epidemiology of Multifactorial Lifestyle Diseases, and Translational Research.
• The main outcomes of such an enterprise is to gain deeper insight into India’s population diversity, improve diagnostic methods and medical counselling.
Genome India Project
Biotechnology
Human genomes