Over 70 leading health care, research, and disease advocacy organizations, including the Human Variome Project announced today that they have taken the first steps to form an international alliance dedicated to enabling secure sharing of genomic and clinical data to improve research into the genetic basis of human disease.

The Human Variome Project is pleased to announce that Venezuela has joined the international Project as an HVP Country Node. The HVP Venezuelan Node is a combined initiative of the Venezuelan Genetics Society and several academic and research institutions actively involved in the field of human and medical genetics.