Center Information

The Stanford Human Genome Center (SHGC) was established initially at UCSF in 1990 as one of the first centers to generate maps of the human genome. We moved to Stanford in 1993, and have continued our participation in the Human Genome Project by finishing chromosomes 5, 16, and19 in collaboration with the Joint Genome Institute. Currently the center has grown from a purely human mapping center into a group of about 50 people who work on several large-scale genomics projects, including genomic DNA sequence finishing, full-length cDNA sequencing, large multi-group genetic association studies, genome-wide gene expression studies, and model organism mapping and sequencing.