The Human Variome Project (HVP)

The Human Variome Project is an international non-governmental organisation that is working to ensure that all information on genetic variation and its effect on human health can be collected, curated, interpreted and shared freely and openly.

Mission:
It is the mission of the Human Variome Project Consortium to establish and maintain the standards, systems, and infrastructure for the responsible collection and free and open sharing of information on all genomic variations.

Vision:
The Human Variome Project Consortium envisions a world where the availability of and access to genomic variation information is not an impediment to diagnosis and treatment; where the burden of disease on the human population is significantly decreased; and where the sharing of genomic variation information is standard clinical practice.

If that envisioned future was today - that is, if all the current global data on genetic variations effecting human disease was able to be collected and shared immediately, then many, many millions of the world’s people and their families would benefit from the faster diagnosis and the more accurate prognosis of their disease and the better treatments this information can be used to create.

That envisioned future is not today, but by working together towards this Vision, it can become a reality much sooner than we think.