Research Centralized Biorepositories for Genetic and Genomic
88 Citations•2009•
G. Ginsburg, Thomas W. Burke, P. Febbo
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Well-annotated biospeci-men collections have enabled the recent identification of genes and geneticlocithoughttocontributions for several complex diseases.
Abstract
-lecularanalysesofbiologicalsamplesthatpro-videprognosticanddiagnosticinformationforclinicalcare.Theanalyticalmethodsandtech-nologies that have accompanied the sequencing of the hu-mangenomehave been the subject of research on their ac-curacy, reliability, and precision, but far less attention hasbeenpaidtothestoragemethodsandarchivingofthespeci-mensrequiredforanalysis.Indeed,well-annotatedbiospeci-men collections have enabled the recent identification ofgenesandgeneticlocithoughttocontributetosusceptibil-ity for several complex diseases.