NCIG Indigenous Genomic Data Collection

The collection consists of genetic data derived from biospecimens, that were collected from the 1960s until the early 1990s from approximately 7000 people from Indigenous communities across northern and western Australia. It was part of an ambitious world-wide project, the International Biological Programme – Human Adaptability section which aimed to enhance our understanding of humans living in the major environmental zones of earth. However changing political, social and ethical settings emerging in Australia resulted in the Australian National University (ANU) placing a moratorium in the late 1990s on research using the collection and the collection was placed in long-term storage.

本数据集集合包含源自生物样本的遗传数据，这些样本采集于20世纪60年代至90年代初，采集对象为澳大利亚北部及西部原住民社区的约7000名受试者。它曾是一项颇具雄心的全球性项目——国际生物学计划（International Biological Programme）人类适应性研究分支的组成部分，该项目旨在深化我们对生活于地球主要环境区域的人类群体的认知。然而，澳大利亚国内不断演变的政治、社会与伦理环境，使得澳大利亚国立大学（Australian National University, ANU）于20世纪90年代末宣布暂停使用该数据集集合开展相关研究，该数据集集合随后被转入长期储存。