First Complete Individual Genome
When the first draft of the human genome was revealed in 2000, it was a composite of DNA from five people - 2 men and 3 women. One of the men was Craig Venter, founder of Celera and president of the J Craig Venter Institute, whose DNA made up 60 percent of that first draft. Now the sequence of Venter’s entire one-man genome has been completed.
Now he has completed reading the rest of his DNA and produced what he calls the Human Reference Genome. So far, an analysis of his DNA confirms that he does indeed have blue eyes and suggests that Venter has a variant of Klotho, a gene linked to long life.
I don’t know how useful that reference will be for me, a Chinese-American woman, but it is interesting that he was willing to put it all out there. I’m not sure I would be so brave when genome sequencing is an affordable procedure available to everyone.
Telegraph, May 26, 2006
Update: More background - Ripped Genes by Roger Highfield
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4 opinions for First Complete Individual Genome
Orikinla Osinachi
May 27, 2006 at 8:00 am
Is this something worth celebrating or should I go back to my game of Chess?
God bless.
Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD
May 28, 2006 at 10:54 am
Orikinla Osinachi: I’d say go back to your game of chess for now, but don’t take your eyes off the genome revolution. ;)
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