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Human Genome Variation 2006: emerging views on structural variation and large-scale SNP analysis

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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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  1. Pui-Yan Kwok and Anthony J Brookes: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Gonçalo Abecasis

  2. Division of Paediatric Surgery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

    Paul Kwong-Hang Tam

  3. Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Carlos D Bustamante

  4. Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Elaine A Ostrander

  5. The Centre for Applied Genomics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Stephen W Scherer

  6. Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Stephen J Chanock

  7. Cardiovascular Research Institute and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Pui-Yan Kwok

  8. Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Anthony J Brookes

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Abecasis, G., Tam, PH., Bustamante, C. et al. Human Genome Variation 2006: emerging views on structural variation and large-scale SNP analysis. Nat Genet 39, 153–155 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0207-153

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