January 6-8, 2020, Shenzhen, China. The 1st Symposium on Million Microbiome of Human Project (MMHP) took place in the China National GeneBank. This is an ambitious and unique project aiming to draw human microbial maps of different races, ages, genders and health conditions based on at least 1 milj. metagenome analysis.

Involvement of research institutions from all over the world is anticipated. Latvia has been among the initiators of the project. The Director of the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre Jānis Kloviņš and the Director of Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine Mārcis Leja were representing our country in the conference. They were presenting the research performed in this field in Latvia so far.
MMHP is supported by the internationally leading experts in molecular biology – the BGI Company. Their daughter company MGI is also established in Latvia.

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