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International HGP Begins in Beijing, China<\/div><\/div><\/li>Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize Laureate and the British HGP leader, said, \u201cI especially salute the Chinese colleagues, who have contributed so much to the international genome effort \u2026 and affirmed its common ownership by all humankind.\u201d Shown here in 2002.<\/div><\/div><\/li>International HGP Consortium, 10 May 2002<\/div><\/div><\/li>The international HGP was officially closed with the \u201cJoint Proclamation by the Heads of Government of Six Countries Regarding the Completion of the Human Genome Sequence\u201d on 14 April, 2003<\/div><\/div><\/li>International HapMap Consortium, 2005<\/div><\/div><\/li>The first International Conference on Genomics was held in Hangzhou, James Dewey Watson paid a visit, 2006. Seen here is Jian Wang with James Watson.<\/div><\/div><\/li>BGI Sequencers 2015-2018<\/div><\/div><\/li>Collaborative Projects Contributed to by BGI<\/div><\/div><\/li>Global Collaboration of CNGB<\/div><\/div><\/li>BGI is a member of the International Genome Sequencing Consortium<\/div><\/div><\/li>This work analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 141,431 Chinese women generated for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). We use these data to characterize the population genetic structure and to investigate genetic associations with maternal and infectious traits. Published in Science<\/em>, October 4, 2018<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/li>In 2012 BGI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to begin immediate collaboration on global health and agricultural development. \u201cBGI greatly welcomes this opportunity to partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring the benefit of genomics research to our global society,\u201d said Dr. Huanming Yang, Chairman and Co-Founder of BGI<\/div><\/div><\/li>CNGB has established a public-welfare, open, supportive and leading platform which operates to principles and guidelines that enable the exchange and sharing of data and genetic resources with other major databases including NCBI, EMBL-EBI and DDBJ, and with biobanks including the Svalbard Seed Vault, Heidelberg University, Smithsonian Institute<\/div><\/div><\/li>2004 BGI sent a team to Thailand to conduct DNA identification of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami<\/div><\/div><\/li>2017 Tibet Autonomous Region CDC and BGI carried out cooperation on prevention and treatment of major infectious diseases such as echinococcosis<\/div><\/div><\/li>2014 Launched the Uncle Spring program to provide free HLA matching and genetic counseling services for 100 thalassemia patients<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>