Human Epigenome Project Publishes Results of MHC Pilot Study

Nov 26, 2004

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (GenomeWeb News) - The Human Epigenome Project, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Berlin-based biotech Epigenomics, and France's Centre National de Génotypage, has wrapped up a pilot study to profile DNA methylation levels within the major histocompatibility complex -- a region of chromosome 6 that is associated with more diseases than any other region in the human genome.

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