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10,000 Ulsan Genomes Project milestone
UNIST and Ulsan City announced that they have sequenced 10,000 whole genomes in the Ulsan region. UNIST News Center

“Identification of reactive CpGs and RNA expression in early COVID-19”
A new study (2025) from KOGIC uses cis-eQTM analysis to link methylation changes and gene expression in early COVID-19 phases, correlating to disease severity and recovery. ResearchGate+1

“Dynamic and reversible transcriptomic age shifts induced by COVID-19 in Korean whole blood”
This 2025 paper reports that COVID-19 induces a transient acceleration of the transcriptomic aging clock (up to ~21 years), which reverses after recovery. PubMed

Korea4K Whole-Genome Dataset Released
In 2024, KOGIC published Korea4K, comprising 4,157 Korean whole genomes paired with 107 phenotypic data points. They reported 45+ million variants, many not previously captured in smaller panels, and novel genome-phenome associations. PubMed+1

New epigenetic and cardiovascular research
KOGIC is publishing on epigenetic modulation (e.g. in vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype switching in early-onset myocardial infarction). ResearchGate