The eighth annual Human Genome Variation Meeting was held in September 2006 in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. The meeting highlighted recent advances in characterization of genetic variation, including genome-wide association studies and structural variation.
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- Pui-Yan Kwok
- & Anthony J Brookes
These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- Gonçalo Abecasis
Division of Paediatric Surgery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
- Paul Kwong-Hang Tam
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
- Carlos D Bustamante
Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Elaine A Ostrander
The Centre for Applied Genomics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Stephen W Scherer
Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Stephen J Chanock
Cardiovascular Research Institute and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Pui-Yan Kwok
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. ajb97@leicester.ac.uk
- Anthony J Brookes
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