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    The Whole Genome Sequence of 100,000 Japanese General Population Has Completed -Largest in Asian Population, One of the World's Leading-

    Research: 2024/06/20

    The Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank (TMM) Project has completed data acquisition for whole-genome analysis for 100,000 of the approximately 150,000 general Japanese population who participated in the cohort study under the TMM project. Since the completion of the first whole genome analysis of 1,000 people in August 2015, we have gradually increased the number of people analyzed and have reached the scale of 100,000 people.

    Large-scale whole genome analyses of several hundred thousand to one million people are being promoted around the world, but until now it has not been such a large-scale whole genome analyses in Japan. With the completion, TMM data have become one of the world's leading large-scale whole genome analyses of the general population, following the UK Biobank and the All of US. We have performed whole genome analysis on the general population through various ingenious and cutting-edge attempts.

    Detail
    Type of Cohort TMM CommCohort Study: 48,425 people
    TMM BirThree Cohort Study: 52,535 people
    Age Under 10: 17,963 people
    10s: 612 people
    20s: 10,475 people
    30s: 20,023 people
    40s: 7,780 people
    50s: 10,713 people
    60s: 23,809 people
    70s: 9,030 people
    80s and over: 287 people
    Gender Male: 36,688 people
    Female: 64,004 people

     

    Roadmap

    For this achievement, we follow a government plan and a consortium of five pharmaceutical companies, established in March 2021, has significantly support us. It is expected to contribute to innovative drug discovery and other diverse research and development in the future.

    Out of 100,000 whole genome analyses, the Japanese Whole Genome Reference Panel using from 85,000 individuals will be made available this fall.

     

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