Human Genome Project (HGP)
- HGP was the international, collaborative research program whose goal was the complete mapping and understanding of the genome (all the genes) of human beings.
- This was first articulated in 1988 by a special committee of the S. National Academy of Sciences
- HGP was began in 1990& completed in 2003.
- It led to the decoding of the entire human genome by sequencing & mapping all of the genes of humans.
- The HGP gave us the ability, for the first time, to read nature’s complete genetic blueprint for building a human being.
Genome India Project (GIP)
- It is aimed at studying the diversity of Indians and its impact on lifestyle, environment & genes that is inherited.
- GIP is also called, the ‘Bioscience Mission for Precision Health & Optimal Well-being’.
- GIP is a combined initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Health Research &Department of Biotechnology.
- Nodal point: the IISc’s Centre for Brain Research.
- The first stage of the project will look at samples of “10,000 persons from all over the country” to form a “grid” that will enable the development of a “reference genome”.