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Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project was an international research collaboration, conducted from 1990 to 2003, that generated a foundational reference sequence and physical map of the human genome.
Overview
Coordinated by the United States National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy alongside partner institutions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and China, the project mapped roughly three billion base pairs. The effort identified an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 protein-coding genes and indicated high sequence similarity across individuals. Although declared finished in 2003, the resulting reference sequence covered the euchromatic genome and left several complex repetitive regions unresolved.
Why it matters
The project established open-access reference data that facilitated the identification of disease-associated genetic variants and contributed to developments in pharmacogenomics, bioinformatics, and DNA sequencing technologies.
What it builds on
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