First African, Asian, and Woman Get Full Genome Map

Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:49 in Biology & Nature

Geneticists announced last week in the journal Nature that they have sequenced the complete set of DNA for three people—a Nigerian man, a Chinese man, and a Caucasian woman with leukemia—bringing the total number of individual genomes sequenced and published to five. (The first two are those of the genetics pioneers J. read more

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