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The article about meta-GWAS across various ancestry groups in which ToMMo participated was published on Nature: Research: 2022/01/05; A new article, entitled "The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids" was publ […]
Genome information for 14,000 people is now available -jMorp 2021 major update-: Research: 2021/12/27; We updated a database, the Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel (jMorp), which provides information on the hum […]
Spouses Really Are Together in Sickness and in Health Suggests New Study [Press Release]: Research: 2021/09/22; A couple’s health is surprisingly intertwined according to a recent cohort study that looked at Dutch and Japa […]
Toshiba, ToMMo, Tohoku University Hospital, and NICT Demonstrate the Use of Quantum Cryptography Communication and Secret Sharing Technologies for Distributed Storage of Genome Analysis Data: Research: 2021/08/26; -Contributing to safe data management in the fields of genomic research and medicine- Toshiba Corporation, Toh […]
The article about the design and pilot study for return of genomic results in TMM cohort study was published: Research: 2021/07/27; The article about the design and pilot study for return of genomic results in Tohoku Medical Megabank (TMM) Pr […]
Allele frequency data of the 8.3KJPN has been released from dbSNP: Research: 2021/06/29; Allele frequency data of the Japanese whole genome reference panel 8.3KJPN, constructed by Tohoku Medical Mega […]
New article about design and development of a novel version of the SNP Array for the Japanese population, Japonica Array NEO was published: Research: 2021/06/25; New article about design and development of Japonica Array NEO was published on the Journal of Biochemistry. T […]
Constructing the First Version of the Japanese Reference Genome [Press Release]: Research: 2021/01/29; The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Meg […]
The article about transcriptome analysis using a long-read sequencing technology: Research: 2020/11/12; New article about transcriptome analysis using long-read sequencing technology was published on the Molecular […]
2020 major update of Japanese Multi Omics Reference Panel "jMorp": JG2 Japanese Reference Genome, 8.3KJPN allele frequency panel, and 25K Metabolome: Research: 2020/10/05; Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) performed a major update of the database, Japanese Multi Omics Re […]