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The announcement of the first draft of the human genome 25 years ago was a pivotal moment that transformed the life sciences. It provided the foundational blueprint for understanding human biology and ...

You know what the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) is implicitly, they're the list of populations you've seen in many human genetics papers already. Now the ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

Researchers have significantly expanded the catalogue of known human genetic variation. The resulting datasets, shared in two back-to-back publications in the journal Nature, constitute what may be ...

Henry T. Greely, Ethical Issues in the Human Genome Diversity Project, in The Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Biotechnology, 2000.

The ‘maverick’ scientist Craig Venter — who led a race to decode the human genome, pioneered a genome-sequencing method still used today, created the first organisms with synthetic genomes and sailed ...