News FeedThe Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute leads the world in genomic research, with an expanding scientific programme dedicated to understanding gene function in health & disease.
Now is an exciting time for the study of human genetic variation. We are entering a new era in which genes responsible for common human diseases can be identified by testing several hundred thousand markers across the human genome and the variation in and around such genes can be examined in detail. As a world leader in human genomics and genome informatics, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is now applying large-scale genotyping, sequencing and related technologies to the identification and study of genes underlying complex traits.