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Human Genome Project

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Publication Year: 2011
Language: English
Website: http://report.nih.gov/NIHfactsheets/ViewFactSheet.aspx?csid=45&key=H#H

The Human Genome Project has already fueled the discovery of more than 1,800 disease genes. As a result of the Human Genome Project, today's researchers can find a gene suspected of causing an inherited disease in a matter of days, rather than the years it took before the genome sequence was in hand.

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