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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Sarah Lansdown

HISTORICAL FACTS: Supercomputer genomics project could be key to closing health gap | History Defined

Deputy director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics Azure Hermes at the National Computational Infrastructure. Picture by Karleen Minney

Indigenous genomics has been considered a taboo subject but unlocking the genomes of the first Australians could be the key to closing persistent health gaps.

The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics has been working for a decade to sequence the samples of about 7000 individuals that were taken with dubious levels of consent.

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