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The Human Genome: Information Content and Structure
Abstract
At a length of two meters and a width of two billionths of a meter, the genome amounts to a library whose code letters carry complete instructions for building and maintaining a human. Until recently, the code was modified only by mutation and natural selection. Today, however, we possess the technology to read and write DNA. The consequent knowledge is already changing medical practice.
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“Traditionally, it has actually roughly been estimated over the last decades that the total length of human diploid DNA is around 2 m (Table 1) [7–13].”
From On the length, weight and GC content of the human genome (2019) · cites this paper as [8]
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On the length, weight and GC content of the human genome
Piovesan, A., Pelleri, M. C., Antonaros, F., Strippoli, P., Caracausi, M., & Vitale, L. (2019) · BMC Research Notes · doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4137-z · Cited by 283
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- Authors
- Ross, D. W.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ross, Dennis W.
- Venue
- Hospital Practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1999-06-15
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 49-65
- ISSN
- 0018-5809 (ISSN-L)
- 2154-8331
- 2377-1003
- OpenAlex
- W1993355393
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Hospital Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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 › Molecular Biology › Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Keywords
- human genome, genome structure, DNA sequencing, genetic engineering, genetic mutations, natural selection, medical genetics
- MeSH terms
- Base Sequence, DNA, Humans, Molecular Biology, Molecular Sequence Data, Genome, Human
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