Once thought to be rare in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), an estimated 20 million adults are now living with diabetes, a burden that is predicted to more than double by 2035.(1) ...
The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium is an initiative of the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the National Institutes of Health (USA), in partnership with the African Society ...
With changing patterns of diseases in Africa, it is increasingly important to train young scientists in order to build research capacity across the continent. Research training is fundamental to enabling ...
The Wellcome Trust advanced course, Genetic Epidemiology in Africa, which was established by research scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute including Dr Manjinder Sandhu, Editor-in-Chief of GHEG, recently took ...
Last year we published the first findings from the African Genome Variation Project (AGVP) in the journal Nature. The primary aim of AGVP was to facilitate medical genetic research across ...