Scientists at the UCD Conway Institute have sequenced the complete genetic code of an Irish person for the first time.

The research team, led by Professor of comparative genomics Brendan Loftus, used DNA from an anonymous Irish male with a confirmed Irish ancestry of three generations.

The decoding of the first Irish genome represents a significant advance in the quest to understand the link between genetic variation and disease susceptibility on this island.

Please read Irish Times article here and/or the UCD Conway website for further information.

Prof Loftus is part of the Scientific Organising Committee of the MMI Course: 
Human Disease Genomics: SNPs, GWAS and Next-Gen Sequencing. See here for further information