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    To fully understand human health and allow everyone access to advances in biomedicine, research programmes must include participants from diverse backgrounds.

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    It is the age of large biobanks in human genetics.

    Image: Federico Simeoni, Małgorzata Nowicka, Nicola Cerioli, Rupesh Vyas

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    How cells, tissues and organisms interpret the information encoded in the genome has vital implications for our understanding of development, health and disease. Launched in 2003, the ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project aims to map the functional elements in the human genome (later expanded to include model organisms).

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    Cancer is a disease of the genome, caused by a cell's acquisition of somatic mutations in key cancer genes.

    Image: Nik Spencer/Nature