摘要
The First Hangzhou International Symposium on the Medical and Laboratory Applications of Medical Genetics and Genomics was held in Hangzhou from October 6-8, 2005. The symposium was organized and sponsored by the First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University and co-sponsored by the Zhejiang Medical Association; School of Medicine of Zhejiang University; the James Watson Institute of Genomics Sciences and Beijing Genomics Institute/Huada Genomics Center of the Chinese Academy of Science. Many internationally prominent geneticists were invited to the meeting, including Arno Motulsky, Peter Byers, Douglas Wallace, Judith Hall, and David Weatherall. The invited speakers presented discussions of recent advances in human and medical genetics, genomics, and in cutting-edge research.