What is the HapMap project?
The International HapMap Project is a multi-country effort to identify and catalog genetic similarities and differences in human beings. Using the information in the HapMap, researchers will be able to find genes that affect health, disease, and individual responses to medications and environmental factors. The Project is a collaboration among scientists and funding agencies from Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Nigeria, and the United States. All of the information generated by the Project is released into the public domain. The HapMap project has identified common haplotypes in four populations—Utah residents of European ancestry, Yoruba in Nigeria, Han Chinese, and Japanese. It has also identified tagSNPs that uniquely identify these haplotypes. See http://www.hapmap.org/ for details.
Related Questions
- I see that there are samples from the HapMap Project in the database. What HapMap sample IDs do these Illumina barcodes correspond to?
- There are samples from the HapMap Project in the database. What HapMap sample IDs do these Illumina barcodes correspond to?
- Where do I find SNP data from the second phase of the HapMap Project recently published by the HapMap consortium?
