As you know Personal Genomics is slowly emerging and I guess it would be the future. Does any one know the best labs in the world that offers Ph.D in this. I searched in google for this but couldn't find any thing helpful. Your comments will be really helpful!
What aspect of personal genomics are you interested in? There are two major sides - the technical/research part, where you're actually doing the sequencing, looking for mutations, and building tools to help find them. That would fall under a computational genomics program. The other side is genetic counselling, which I believe is generally a Master's program. (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Typically, there isn't much overlap between the two.
A personal genomics company 23andme are hiring: https://www.23andme.com/about/jobs/ . I'm sure there are others about.
If you want to find out what labs are working on this it probably better to search google scholar or pubmed over normal google searches. Also it would probably help to narrow it down to a particular application of personal genomics - say to a particular disease, as this is more likely to be what scientists will actually be researching.
I haven't heard of any. But I'm sure if a school figures out there's demand for it a program will becomes established shortly....
That said, a degree in genetic counseling might be something you'd want to pursue, or find a school that offers that and does clinical research. You could combine courses for a pretty good degree yourself. However, despite an incredible lack of sufficient counselors around the US, I'm told they are pretty underpaid. I have a theory about that, but I'll keep it to myself.
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Well, maybe it's time they overlapped? But really: if this is a direction I was interested in (and I don't think it's a bad idea right now) a clever student choosing the right institution that had both might be able to create a combined degree of some sort. I'd try that. But I've always tried to combine things that other people see as separate, and it has worked for me: see biology + computers.