Last Human Genome Revealed

Society | May 19, 2006, Friday // 00:00

The sequence of the last chromosome in the human genome has been identified to wrap up the Human Genome Project.

Chromosome one is the largest of the human chromosomes, containing about 8% of our genome.

This chromosome is involved in over 350 diseases, including some cancers, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

The Human Genome Project, published in the journal Nature, is an international research effort launched with the aim of sequencing every gene in the human genome - often described as the book of life.

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