Article
Three decades of the Human Genome Organization.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2021
Lee Charles, Antonarakis Stylianos E, Hamosh Ada, Burn John
Abstract excerpt
The Human Genome Organization (HUGO) was initially established in 1988 to help integrate international scientific genomic activity and to accelerate the diffusion of knowledge from the efforts of the human genome project. Its founding President was Victor McKusick. During the late 1980s and 1990s, HUGO organized lively gene mapping meetings to accurately place genes on the genome as chromosomes were being...
Topics
- Databases, Genetic
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Human
- Genomics
- History, 20th Century
- Human Genetics
- Human Genome Project
- Humans
