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The European Commission has promised 30 million Euro ($41 million) to fund 41 institutions across Europe to study the epigenome as a part of a project called BLUEPRINT. The EC's project is one arm of the International Epigenome Consortium (IHEC), which was started last year. The IHEC will coordinate the efforts of member agencies from the EU, United States, Japan, and other countries to generate a reference epigenome that can be used in much the same way that the human genome is used by researchers today.
"BLUEPRINT is the first big epigenome project to be specifically created in alignment with the IHEC mission," Peter Jones from the University of Southern California told Nature. The project will focus on generating the epigenomes of 60 different blood ...
