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Genomics

Definition
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Genomics is the large-scale study of genomes—their sequence, variation, structure, regulation, and evolution—typically using high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis across many loci simultaneously.

Topics
Sequencing and omics tech
Related
Bioinformatics Genetics Genome

Why it matters in GWAS

GWAS is a central genomics application: genome-wide genotyping or sequencing plus statistical association links DNA variation to traits at scale, often integrated with other omics layers.

Example usage

"Our genomics core processed array data for 500,000 participants before imputation to the TOPMed panel."

Bioinformatics Genetics Genome Exome Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Metabolome Microbiome Multi-Omics Proteome Statistical Genetics Transcriptome Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS)
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Green ED, Watson JD, Collins FS. (2015). Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology. Nature.
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