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| The Utah Genetic Reference Project (UGRP) |
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| The Utah Genetic Reference Project is the first and only such project world-wide. The Utah Genetic Reference Families (also known by international researchers as the "CEPH families") comprise more than 650 individuals from more than 42 families. DNA from these families was originally collected by LineaGen Chief Scientific Advisor, Mark Leppert, Ph.D., for the development of the first map of the human genome. Currently, this DNA serves as the Caucasian DNA reference set for the International Haplotype Project (or "HapMap"); one goal of which is the identification of the genetic "neighborhoods" in which the cause of the world's most common diseases can be found. |
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| The extensive genetic information that exists on these individuals was bolstered by LineaGen's Chairman, Stephen Prescott, M.D. and CSA, Mark Leppert, Ph.D., through their visionary collection of very comprehensive phenotype data consisting of more than 180 biochemical and physical measurements from these UGRP/CEPH Families. This combination of extensive genetic and phenotypic information is an unparalleled resource for the investigation of the genetic cause and/or associations underlying human traits and disease. Publications in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals such as Science are starting to emerge based on the results of investigations into human traits using the UGRP including taste, pulmonary function, and autoimmune disease. |
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