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From Maps to Medicine: About the Human Genome Research Project

Internet URL

http://www.genome.gov/10001772  

Sponsoring Agency

National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Description

The Human Genome Project is an ambitious effort to understand the hereditary instructions that make each of us unique. The goal of this effort is to find the location of the 100,000 or so human genes and to read the entire genetic script, all 3 billion bits of information, by the year 2005.

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Review Date

2/24/2005