title: [SNP project in the Millennium Genome Project, Japan].
abstract: The basic outlines of the Millennium Genome Project were drawn by the Japanese government on December 19, 1999. In the "Disease gene" team, 5 disease have been chosen as the targets of the Project, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension and asthma. Along with the knowledge-based candidate gene approaches, the complementary strategy of the disease gene hunting, the statistics-based approach, is being deployed. The Project decided to go for a genome-wide, gene-based SNP scan through a close collaboration with another team of the Project, "Standard polymorphism" team, which already discovered c. a. 160,000 SNPs in and around the genes of the Japanese people.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Genomics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
authors.forename: Teruhiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000235:genetics; D001249:Asthma / Q000235:genetics; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000235:genetics; D016045:Human Genome Project; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics; D007564:Japan; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide