About the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Creating global impact through open science

At an exciting time of scientific discovery we are leveraging the UK’s strengths in gene discovery and functional genomics to improve our understanding of the mechanisms that underpin human disease.

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Our UK wide-initiative, is a network of some of the UK’s leading researchers, clinicians and industry partners, bringing together national expertise in functional genomics and data science.

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Over the last 30 years

We’ve learned so much about genes. Our mission now is to discover the role they play in disease and find new treatments.

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Since the completion of the Human Genome Project two decades ago, we have entered a golden age of genetic discovery. Our understanding of how genetics determines how we look, how we think, and what diseases we get during our lives is increasingly comprehensive.

This golden age promised to revolutionise medicine, with new treatments for common diseases, but this promise has not yet been fully realised.

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Our structure

A programme that aims to advance our understanding of how genomic variation influences human physiology and how it changes over time and in disease.

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More about functional genomics

Genetics and Genomics - what’s the difference?

Genetics studies individual genes, while genomics looks at the full genetic blueprint of an organism and how it works as a whole system.

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What is functional genomics?

Functional genomics is the study of how genes and intergenic regions of the genome contribute to different biological processes.

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