The establishment of Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa. www. h3africa. org)
has catalyzed collaborative research across national boundaries, building on existing …

Apan-African consortium, Human Health and Her-edity in Africa (H3Africa), was initiated in
2010 to build research programs and infrastructure in genomic medicine on the African …

Africa is disproportionately burdened by communicable and non-communicable diseases
and their consequences. The 2010-2015 life expectancy at birth is 58.2 years for people …

Biobanks are organized collections of biospecimens and associated data from large number
of individuals for the purpose of health research. The number of biobanks has expanded in …

Developing a complex collaborative program across multiple African countries,
characterized by a diversity of government models, laws, cultures and norms, resources and …

Our understanding of genome biology, genomics, and disease, and even human history,
has advanced tremendously with the completion of the Human Genome Project …

Background Biorepositories archive and distribute well-characterized biospecimens for
research to support the development of medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Knowledge of …

Background A multi-million dollar research initiative involving the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust and African scientists has been launched. The initiative …

The application of genomics technologies to medicine and biomedical research is
increasing in popularity, made possible by new high-throughput genotyping and sequencing …

Individuals with African ancestry have the greatest genomic diversity in the world, yet they
have been underrepresented in genomic research. To advance our understanding of human …