Meeting Report

7th International HUGO Mutation Database Meeting, October 19, 1999, San Francisco, U.S.A.

  1. Ourania Horaitis,
  2. Richard G.H. Cotton*

Article first published online: 10 FEB 2000

DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(200003)15:3<288::AID-HUMU10>3.0.CO;2-F

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Human Mutation

Human Mutation

Volume 15, Issue 3, pages 288–292, March 2000

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Horaitis, O. and Cotton, R. G. (2000), 7th International HUGO Mutation Database Meeting, October 19, 1999, San Francisco, U.S.A.Human Mutation, 15: 288–292. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(200003)15:3<288::AID-HUMU10>3.0.CO;2-F

Author Information

  1. Mutation Research Centre, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

*Mutation Research Centre, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 FEB 2000
  2. Article first published online: 10 FEB 2000
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 6 DEC 1999
  4. Manuscript Received: 20 NOV 1999

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  • The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (U.S.A.). Grant Number: 4-FY98-764

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Keywords:

  • HUGO meeting;
  • mutation databases;
  • MDI;
  • locus-specific database;
  • LSDB

Abstract

The 7th International HUGO Mutation Database Meeting was held on October 19, 1999 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Meeting highlights are described, including discussions of topics such as the ethical aspects of variation databases, ethical guidelines which should be established immediately, data protection laws which may affect access to data, and plans to make variation databases financially self-sustaining. A resolution was passed which encourages HUGO and Mutation Database Initiative (MDI) collaboration (under the name HUGO-MDI) to provide an integrated, properly funded system of variation databases. Hum Mutat 15:288–292, 2000. © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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