A meeting was held to discuss how haplotype maps are constructed and used in disease research, the ethical issues surrounding this research and the organization of the project: The International HapMap Project

• Meeting Summary
  
  
• Agenda & Participants
  
  
• Meeting materials:
  
  
  • Outline
  • Ethical Issues
    
    
• Background papers and documents distributed at the meeting:
  
  
  • Goldstein, D.B., and Weale, M.E. Population genomics: Linkage disequilibrium holds the key. Curr. Biol., 11:R576-579. 2001. [Full Text]
    
    
  • Reich, D.E., Cargill, M., Bolk, S., Ireland, J., Sabeti, P.C., Richter, D.J., Lavery, T., Kouyoumjian, R., Farhadian, S.F., Ward, R., and Lander, E.S. Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. Nature , 411:199-204. 2001. [Full Text] [nature.com]
    
    
• Members of the Initial International HapMap Project Working Group

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Last Updated: September 8, 2009