Human Genome Project
From Activating Evolution
The Human Genome Project (HGP) is a project to de-code (i.e. sequence) more than 3 billion nucleotides contained in a haploid reference human genome and to identify all the genes present in it. The reference human genome sequence was considered pragmatically 'complete' at 92% in 2005 in publications by an international public HGP and somewhat independently by a private company Celera Genomics. Recently, several groups have announced efforts to extend this to diploid human genomes including the International HapMap Project, Applied Biosystems, Perlegen, Illumina, JCVI, Personal Genome Project, and Roche-454. The "genome" of any given individual (except for identical twins and cloned animals) is unique; mapping "the human genome" involves sequencing multiple variations of each gene. The project did not study all of the DNA found in human cells; some heterochromatic areas (about 8% of the total) remain unsequenced.
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[edit] Origin
[edit] The Human Jerome Project
The first human specimen, Jerome Vandelay, died from complications arising from the tweaking and studying of his genes.
[edit] References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project
[edit] External Links
The Human Genome Project homepage
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