Template:Did you know nominations/African Society of Human Genetics
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The result was: promoted by The C of E (talk) 07:04, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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African Society of Human Genetics
- ... that the African Society of Human Genetics spearheaded the H3Africa initiative, which discovered millions of genetic variants from the genome sequencing of 50 African ethnolinguistic groups?
Source: "During the meeting in Cairo in 2007, the membership agreed the AfSHG should spearhead an African Genome Project (AGP) [...] At the 2009 meeting in Yaoundé, the AGP concept was renamed "Human Heredity and Health in Africa" (H3Africa) to reflect its goals and scope. [...] [1] By 2020, H3Africa had published its milestone paper in Nature—a whole genome analysis of 426 individuals from 50 previously unsampled ethnolinguistic groups in Africa —and about 300 other manuscripts describing new data and results. The paper was a major step for African genomics: it uncovered millions of new genetic variants[...] [2]"
Sources:
- Rotimi, Charles N. (2019). "Enabling Genomic Revolution in Africa". The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease. pp. 320–330. doi:10.1017/9781139680295.014.
- Choudhury A, Aron S, Botigué LR, Sengupta D, Botha G, Bensellak T, Wells G, Kumuthini J, Shriner D, Fakim YJ, Ghoorah AW, Dareng E, Odia T, Falola O, Adebiyi E, Hazelhurst S, Mazandu G, Nyangiri OA, Mbiyavanga M, Benkahla A, Kassim SK, Mulder N, Adebamowo SN, Chimusa ER, Muzny D, Metcalf G, Gibbs RA, Rotimi C, Ramsay M, Adeyemo AA, Lombard Z, Hanchard NA (October 2020). "High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health". Nature. 586 (7831): 741–748. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2859-7. PMC 7759466. PMID 33116287.
Created/expanded by Citing (talk). Self-nominated at 19:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC).
@Citing: New and long enough, Earwig detects no copyvios, this appears to be the second DYK nomination so no QPQ review needed, image fair use checks out. The Member societies and Meetings sections need references. I don't think the hook is the most interesting; I find the first paragraphs of the Mission and History sections to have good material for a hook. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 05:23, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Antony-22: Thanks for reviewing. References have been added. What do you think of this as an alternate hook?Citing (talk) 01:43, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that the African Society of Human Genetics was established so that more human genetics and genomics research could be done by African scientists, within Africa?
