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Whole Genome Sequencing of Fukushima’s People

October 22, 2012 2 Comments

At the end of August, Mr. Hosono, the Japanese minister for the environment, announced, that the ministry aims to perform whole genome sequencing (WGS) of people who live around the disabled “Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station”. He said that the WGS project will not be able to relieve concerns immediately, but it will make an important provision for the future. According to Mr. Hosono the main target group for WGS will be children.

These genomic analyses face many problems including the aspect of experiments with humans, maintaining confidentiality, discovery of information according to need, and others. This story reminds me once more that NGS technologies start to have social impacts.

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Jun Onodera

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Jun is balancing expanding NGS technologies and potential recipients.
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2 Responses to “Whole Genome Sequencing of Fukushima’s People”

  1. Carola Grimminger
    Carola Reply October 22, 2012 at 11:06 am

    Dear Jun, please keep us up-to-date on the plannings of the Japanese governenment. It could be the beginning of a completely new dimension of “census”.

  2. Jun Onodera
    Jun Onodera Reply October 29, 2012 at 4:55 am

    Dear Carola, thank you for your interest, and it must be my motivation! I’ll keep watching this plan and its execution. However, I’m anxious for one point – Japanese information mediums share with this topic hardly…