Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics Advance Access originally published online on February 3, 2006
Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics 2006 4(4):293-294; doi:10.1093/bfgp/eli001
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Editorial
Reader in Functional Genomics School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS E-mail: g.elgar@qmul.ac.uk
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We recently witnessed a huge increase in the number of mammalian genomes that have been made publicly available, from around ten to nearly three hundred. I'm talking of course, of the additional 269 human genomes that have been characterized through the HapMap Consortium, providing additional sequence variation data for each genome across over one million variable base positions. This wonderful resource provides not only an opportunity to carry out high-resolution linkage mapping, but also an opportunity for those of us who dabble in comparative genomics to compare sequence variation within a species with evolutionary