The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was started by Stanford University's Morrison Institute and a collaboration of scientists around the world. It is the result of many years of work by Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, one of the most cited scientists in the world, which has published extensively in the use of genetics to understand human migration and evolution. The HGDP data sets have often been cited in papers on such topics as population genetics, anthropology, and heritable disease research.
The project has noted the need to record the genetic profiles of endogenous populations, as isolated populations are the best way to understand the genetic frequencies that have clues into our distant past. The relationship between such populations allow to infer the humankind journey from the initial humans that left Africa and populated the world. The HGDP-CEPH Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel, is a resource of 1063 cultured lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) from 1050 individuals in 52 world populations, banked at the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in Paris.
The HGDP is not related to the Human Genome Project, and has attempted to maintain a distinct identity.
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