Genetics research at the "Centenary of human population genetics" conference and SBB-2019
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Genetics research at the "Centenary of human population genetics" conference and SBB-2019 Tatiana V. Tatarinova1,2,3, Ludmila E. Tabikhanova4,5, Gilda Eslami6,7, Haihua Bai8 and Yuriy L. Orlov4,5,9* From 11th International Young Scientists School “Systems Biology and Bioinformatics” – SBB-2019 Novosibirsk, Russia. 24-28 June 2019 Human population genetics has more than hundred year history. Modern next-gen sequencing technologies, genotyping and bioinformatics extended the research boundaries raising new genetics problems. This special issue of BMC Genetics presents the selected works studies discussed at the “Centenary of Human Population Genetics” conference in Moscow in May 2019, organized on the base of Moscow State University (http://www. centenary-popgene.com/). The Conference was focused on the discussion of the research on gene pools of the world’s nations, ancient DNA analysis, possibilities of judicial genetics, population-genetic database development, biobanks, and new genomics technologies. It was a unique event referred to as the 100th anniversary of the first human population study in 1919. This journal special issue contains materials on human genetics and genomics presented at the conference in Moscow and SBB-2019 (Systems Biology and Bioinformatics - 2019) School in Novosibirsk in 2019 (http:// conf.bionet.nsc.ru/sbb2019/en/). The SBB School series on bioinformatics is organized annually since 2008 by the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University [1]. We have published selected conference materials as special issues at BMC Genetics and related BioMed Central journals [2–5]. The SBB Schools in Novosibirsk are satellite events for BGRS\SB (Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and * Correspondence: [email protected] 4 Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia 5 Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Structure \ Systems Biology) (https://bgrssb.icgbio.ru/2 020) multiconference with genetics sessions [1, 6, 7]. The SBB-2019 School was held as a broad-scope independent meeting, genetics in topics with the human genomics and bioinformatics areas. The special issue on bioinformatics is accompanied by other BMC journal issues in the genomics, bioinformatics, and medical genetics areas at BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Genomics, and BMC Medical Genetics, as well as in BMC Microbiology. We continued the BMC Genetics special issues in 2019 [2, 8, 9]. We believe such events and public discussion at the platforms of international publishers will bring the attention of the journal readers to actual genomics challenges. We open up this Special Issue by the human population genetics study in Africa by the article by Sandra Walsh and colleagues [10] (this issue). African populations are genetically more diverse than any other human population, holding the highest amount
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