First public name for the first time in the real name to publicize the whole genome sequence, downloadable from the net

ByLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Keio University College of Environmental InformationProfessor,Keio University Advanced Life Science InstituteProfessor Masaru Tomita, who is also the director of the company, analyzed and published its entire genome sequence. It is the first case for Japanese to open the whole genome sequence with the real name.

First time in Japan, professor of the university publishes its own individual whole genome with real name - classes using open genome at Shonan Fujisawa campus (SFC) also opened: - [Keio University]


The word "Genom" was made by German botanist Hans Winkler in 1920. According to Oxford English DictionaryGenE (gene) and ChromosOmeIt seems that it is a coined word that combined (chromosome).

A project to analyze the entire base sequence of the human genome that was launched in 1990Human Genome Project"Was completed in 2003, spending about 13 billion years and about 3 billion dollars (about 234.7 billion yen). It has contributed greatly in medicine and drug discovery, and its economic benefit is estimated at $ 796 billion (about 62 trillion yen). Later, DNA analysis technology has been making substantial progress, and within a few years it is even said that it will be possible to decipher the genomic information of one individual per thousand dollars (approximately 80,000 yen).

ByGravitywave

In addition to being able to know in advance the risk of "what kind of disease is likely to occur" when the individual's genome is available, clarify the causes of diseases and diseases which are said to be difficult to treat, There is also possibility to be linked to. However, as it is, so to speak, the "ultimate personal information", management and social and ethical issues also exist, so it is urgent to promote literacy education before the "personal genome age" comes .

ByArs Electronica Center

This time, Professor Tomita decided to register and publish his / her full genomic information and previous medical records in the public DNA database with their real names has the idea that it would help to solve the above problem, and in personal genome education It is expected to be widely used.

Examples of publicizing whole genome information so far with a real name include Dr. James Watson of Nobel Prize who discovered the DNA molecular structure, Dr. Craig Venter, one of the leading people of the Human Genome Project, Dr. George Church of Personal Genome Project Leader In addition, there is a case that Japanese genomic sequence was disclosed anonymously even by Japanese.

At Keio University, we already carried out lessons using Professor Tomita's genome information. In the workshop, students will conduct genomic analysis on themes such as "Professor Tomita's Professional Diagnosis from the Genome" and "Theme if Professor Tomita is to participate in the Olympics" and "Lifestyle Related Disease Professor Tomita should be aware of" He said he went.

Based on this result, Professor Tomita has announced the following comments.

At the final presentation, my thought and physical ability, intellectual ability, constitution and risk of illness etc were discussed and discussed, it was very interesting. There are things that seems to be hit or disagreeable, and I think that the students were able to experience that it would never be said that "you can understand whatever you see the genome."
On the other hand, it is certain that statistical trends can be found about constitution and ability, and how to use it for improving living is important in the future.

The genomic information of Professor Tomita is published in the following database.

List of ftp://ftp.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ddbj_database/dra/DRA000/DRA000583/
Ftp://ftp.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ddbj_database/dra/DRA000/DRA000583/