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Please note that some news is out of date. This has been delayed due to the HVP meeting work load (see next Newsletter due Jyly 31st).
(Previous HGVS & HUGO-MDI newsletters may be found on our website at: www.genomic.unimelb.edu.au/hgvs/newsletters.html, these may be helpful for new members to familiarize themselves with our projects).
Mutation Databases Update to Links
HGVS has an official 501(c) 3 status
In vitro Diagnostic Company looking for samples
Joint HGVS & HGNC Meeting on "Copy Number Variation"
HGVS Scientific & Annual General Meeting
Mutation Detection Training Course, Leiden - 2006
6th Australasian Mutation Detection Meeting - 2006
The lists of Locus Specific Mutation Databases on the HGVS website have been completely updated. We would appreciate it if any curators would let us know of any changes to URL or gene additions/deletions when you make them so the pages are kept up-to-date.
If you are a database curator and have not already done so recently, can you please look at your links and let Rania know of any errors, changes or additions.
CORRESPONDENCE
Anyone wishing to make an announcement of interest to members in these newsletters please send a short paragraph to Rania at (rania@gdrc.hfi.unimelb.edu.au) to be included in the next issue.
Dr. Vassilis Tsaousis from an invitro diagnostic company if Greece is looking for samples with mutations in the CYP2C19 and TPMT genes. If anyone can help please contact Dr. Tsaoussis on tsaousis@mediconsa.com.
We have just heard from William Oetting that the HGVS now has official 501(c) 3 status instead of having an advance ruling. We can now accept those $100,000 donations all of those corporations have been holding back!
(A satellite of HUGO's HGM)
Wednesday 31st May 2005
Helsinki Fair Centre
The meeting was very successful. The meeting report will be in the next newsletter.
See: http://abstracts.hgvs.org/Helsinki/ for more details
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Monday 9th October 2006
8:00AM to 8:00PM
New Orleans , Louisiana , U.S.A.
Abstract Closing Date 7th August 2006
See: http://www.hgvs.org/meetings/NO.html for more details.
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This time, this biennial course will be held in Leiden , the Netherlands .
The course will take place from 31st August to 4th September 2006 and is organised by Dr. Johan T. den Dunnen ( Leiden Genome Technology Center ).
These popular small courses aim to provide an overview of current technology and applications via a mixture of practical demonstrations, laboratory work and lectures with a combination of top-level speakers and laboratory demonstrations. Participants are from around the world.
See: http://mdtc2006.hugo-international.org/home/index.php
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2 – 5 August 2006
Couran Cove, South Stradbroke Island, QLD, Australia
This meeting is a satellite to the International the 11th Congress of Human Genetics to be held nearby in Brisbane.
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