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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
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The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development, physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome. We also present an initial analysis of the data, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence.
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- Authors
- International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, C. F. G. R., Lander, E. S., Linton, L. M., Birren, B., Nusbaum, C., Zody, M. C., Baldwin, J., Devon, K., Dewar, K., Doyle, M., FitzHugh, W., Funke, R., Gage, D., Harris, K., Heaford, A., Howland, J., Kann, L., Lehoczky, J., LeVine, R., McEwan, P., McKernan, K., Meldrim, J., Mesirov, J. P., Miranda, C., Morris, W., Naylor, J., Raymond, C., Rosetti, M., Santos, R., Sheridan, A., Sougnez, C., Stange-Thomann, N., Stojanovic, N., Subramanian, A., Wyman, D., The Sanger Centre:, Rogers, J., Sulston, J., Ainscough, R., Beck, S., Bentley, D., Burton, J., Clee, C., Carter, N., Coulson, A., Deadman, R., Deloukas, P., Dunham, A., Dunham, I., Durbin, R., French, L., Grafham, D., Gregory, S., Hubbard, T., Humphray, S., Hunt, A., Jones, M., Lloyd, C., McMurray, A., Matthews, L., Mercer, S., Milne, S., Mullikin, J. C., Mungall, A., Plumb, R., Ross, M., Shownkeen, R., Sims, S., Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, Waterston, R. H., Wilson, R. K., Hillier, L. W., McPherson, J. D., Marra, M. A., Mardis, E. R., Fulton, L. A., Chinwalla, A. T., Pepin, K. H., Gish, W. R., Chissoe, S. L., Wendl, M. C., Delehaunty, K. D., Miner, T. L., Delehaunty, A., Kramer, J. B., Cook, L. L., Fulton, R. S., Johnson, D. L., Minx, P. J., Clifton, S. W., US DOE Joint Genome Institute:, Hawkins, T., Branscomb, E., Predki, P., Richardson, P., Wenning, S., Slezak, T., Doggett, N., Cheng, J.-F., Olsen, A., Lucas, S., Elkin, C., Uberbacher, E., Frazier, M., Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center:, Gibbs, R. A., Muzny, D. M., Scherer, S. E., Bouck, J. B., Sodergren, E. J., Worley, K. C., Rives, C. M., Gorrell, J. H., Metzker, M. L., Naylor, S. L., Kucherlapati, R. S., Nelson, D. L., Weinstock, G. M., RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center:, Sakaki, Y., Fujiyama, A., Hattori, M., Yada, T., Toyoda, A., Itoh, T., Kawagoe, C., Watanabe, H., Totoki, Y., Taylor, T., UMR-8030:, G. A. C., Weissenbach, J., Heilig, R., Saurin, W., Artiguenave, F., Brottier, P., Bruls, T., Pelletier, E., Robert, C., Wincker, P., Department of Genome Analysis, I. O. M. B., Rosenthal, A., Platzer, M., Nyakatura, G., Taudien, S., Rump, A., GTC Sequencing Center:, Smith, D. R., Doucette-Stamm, L., Rubenfield, M., Weinstock, K., Lee, H. M., Dubois, J., Beijing Genomics Institute/Human Genome Center:, Yang, H., Yu, J., Wang, J., Huang, G., Gu, J., Multimegabase Sequencing Center, T. I. F. S. B., Hood, L., Rowen, L., Madan, A., Qin, S., Stanford Genome Technology Center:, Davis, R. W., Federspiel, N. A., Abola, A. P., Proctor, M. J., University of Oklahoma's Advanced Center for Genome Technology:, Roe, B. A., Chen, F., Pan, H., Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics:, Ramser, J., Lehrach, H., Reinhardt, R., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, L. A. H. G. C., McCombie, W. R., de la Bastide, M., Dedhia, N., GBF—German Research Centre for Biotechnology:, Blöcker, H., Hornischer, K., Nordsiek, G., *Genome Analysis Group (listed in alphabetical order, A. I. I. L. U. O. H., Agarwala, R., Aravind, L., Bailey, J. A., Bateman, A., Batzoglou, S., Birney, E., Bork, P., Brown, D. G., Burge, C. B., Cerutti, L., Chen, H.-C., Church, D., Clamp, M., Copley, R. R., Doerks, T., Eddy, S. R., Eichler, E. E., Furey, T. S., Galagan, J., Gilbert, J. G. R., Harmon, C., Hayashizaki, Y., Haussler, D., Hermjakob, H., Hokamp, K., Jang, W., Johnson, L. S., Jones, T. A., Kasif, S., Kaspryzk, A., Kennedy, S., Kent, W. J., Kitts, P., Koonin, E. V., Korf, I., Kulp, D., Lancet, D., Lowe, T. M., McLysaght, A., Mikkelsen, T., Moran, J. V., Mulder, N., Pollara, V. J., Ponting, C. P., Schuler, G., Schultz, J., Slater, G., Smit, A. F. A., Stupka, E., Szustakowki, J., Thierry-Mieg, D., Thierry-Mieg, J., Wagner, L., Wallis, J., Wheeler, R., Williams, A., Wolf, Y. I., Wolfe, K. H., Yang, S.-P., Yeh, R.-F., Scientific management: National Human Genome Research Institute, U. N. I. O. H., Collins, F., Guyer, M. S., Peterson, J., Felsenfeld, A., Wetterstrand, K. A., Stanford Human Genome Center:, Myers, R. M., Schmutz, J., Dickson, M., Grimwood, J., Cox, D. R., University of Washington Genome Center:, Olson, M. V., Kaul, R., Raymond, C., Department of Molecular Biology, K. U. S. O. M., Shimizu, N., Kawasaki, K., Minoshima, S., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas:, Evans, G. A., Athanasiou, M., Schultz, R., Office of Science, U. D. O. E., Patrinos, A., The Wellcome Trust:, & Morgan, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Joint Genome Institute (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center (US)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- RIKEN (JP)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Institute for Systems Biology (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- University of Oklahoma (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (DE)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US)
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (DE)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University Hospitals of Cleveland (US)
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- Max Delbrück Center (DE)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Keio University (JP)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- United States Department of Energy (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Wellcome Trust (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Lander, Eric S.
- Sulston, John
- Waterston, Robert H.
- Collins, Francis
- ORCID
- Lander, Eric S.
- Birren, Bruce
- Nusbaum, Chad
- Zody, Michael C.
- Dewar, Ken
- Howland, John
- Kann, Lisa
- Lehoczky, Jessica
- McKernan, Kevin
- Meldrim, James
- Mesirov, Jill P.
- Subramanian, Aravind
- Beck, Stephan
- Deloukas, Panos
- Dunham, Ian
- Durbin, Richard
- French, Lisa
- Gregory, Simon
- Hubbard, Tim
- Humphray, Sean
- Hunt, Adrienne
- Jones, Matthew
- McMurray, Amanda
- Milne, Sarah
- Mullikin, James C.
- Mungall, Andrew
- Ross, Mark
- Sims, Sarah
- Waterston, Robert H.
- McPherson, John D.
- Marra, Marco A.
- Mardis, Elaine R.
- Chinwalla, Asif T.
- Pepin, Kymberlie H.
- Wendl, Michael C.
- Kramer, Jason B.
- Cook, Lisa L.
- Fulton, Robert S.
- Minx, Patrick J.
- Branscomb, Elbert
- Doggett, Norman
- Cheng, Jan-Fang
- Olsen, Anne
- Lucas, Susan
- Gibbs, Richard A.
- Muzny, Donna M.
- Scherer, Steven E.
- Sodergren, Erica J.
- Worley, Kim C.
- Kucherlapati, Raju S.
- Nelson, David L.
- Weinstock, George M.
- Hattori, Masahira
- Yada, Tetsushi
- Toyoda, Atsushi
- Itoh, Takehiko
- Totoki, Yasushi
- Taylor, Todd
- Weissenbach, Jean
- Wincker, Patrick
- Platzer, Matthias
- Rump, Andreas
- Yang, Huanming
- Wang, Jian
- Hood, Leroy
- Madan, Anup
- Davis, Ronald W.
- Chen, Feng
- Pan, Huaqin
- Reinhardt, Richard
- McCombie, W. Richard
- Agarwala, Richa
- Aravind, L.
- Bailey, Jeffrey A.
- Bateman, Alex
- Batzoglou, Serafim
- Birney, Ewan
- Brown, Daniel G.
- Burge, Christopher B.
- Cerutti, Lorenzo
- Church, Deanna
- Copley, Richard R.
- Eddy, Sean R.
- Eichler, Evan E.
- Furey, Terrence S.
- Galagan, James
- Gilbert, James G. R.
- Harmon, Cyrus
- Hayashizaki, Yoshihide
- Haussler, David
- Hermjakob, Henning
- Hokamp, Karsten
- Jang, Wonhee
- Kasif, Simon
- Koonin, Eugene V.
- Korf, Ian
- Kulp, David
- Lancet, Doron
- Lowe, Todd M.
- McLysaght, Aoife
- Mikkelsen, Tarjei
- Moran, John V.
- Mulder, Nicola
- Ponting, Chris P.
- Schultz, Jörg
- Slater, Guy
- Smit, Arian F. A.
- Stupka, Elia
- Wheeler, Raymond
- Wolf, Yuri I.
- Wolfe, Kenneth H.
- Collins, Francis
- Wetterstrand, Kris A.
- Myers, Richard M.
- Schmutz, Jeremy
- Grimwood, Jane
- Cox, David R.
- Olson, Maynard V.
- Kaul, Rajinder
- Raymond, Christopher
- Kawasaki, Kazuhiko
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2001-02-01
- Volume
- 409
- Issue
- 6822
- Pages
- 860-921
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2168909179
- Semantic Scholar
- 040e3692c4855e5d2e41cacf7aeaa36c00c11570
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- Language
- en
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- University of Pennsylvania
- Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation
- Wellcome Trust
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Yang-Ming University
- National Institutes of Health
- Medical Research Council
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Biological and Environmental Research
- Institute of Genetics
- Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Keywords
- human genome, genome sequencing, draft genome sequence, genome annotation, human evolution, human development, human physiology, human medicine
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Chromosome Mapping, DNA Transposable Elements, Drug Industry, Forecasting, Genes, Genetics, Medical, Humans, Mutation, Proteins, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, RNA, Species Specificity, Genome, Human, Human Genome Project, Databases, Factual, Conserved Sequence, Private Sector, Public Sector, Sequence Analysis, DNA, CpG Islands, Evolution, Molecular, Gene Duplication, Proteome, GC Rich Sequence, Genetic Diseases, Inborn
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