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Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious psychiatric disorder affecting around 1% of the population worldwide. While medications are indispensable for these patients, they are not completely effective, and the underlying genetic architecture and pathogenesis of BD remain unresolved. Researchers from Japan have now used deep exome sequencing to show that mosaic variants/mutations found in genes related to developmental disorders and autism spectrum disease and in the mitochondrial tRNA region could be associated with BD.

The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University who completed and released the first Japanese reference genome (JG1).

Date Time Constructing First Version of Japanese Reference Genome The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University who completed and released the first Japanese reference genome (JG1). Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications on January 11, 2021. “JG1 can aid with the clinical sequence analysis of Japanese individuals with rare diseases as it eliminates the genomic differences from the international reference genome,” said Jun Takayama, co-author of the study. Back in 2003, the Human Genome Project, through a gargantuan glob...

Tohoku University The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University who completed and released the first Japanese reference genome (JG1). Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications on January 11, 2021. "JG1 can aid with the clinical sequence analysis of Japanese individuals with rare diseases as it eliminates the genomic differences from the international reference genome," said Jun Takayama, co-author of the study. Back in 2003, the Human Genome Project, through a gargantuan global effort, cracked the code of life and mapped all ...