Hum Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Any two people may be roughly 99 percent identical at the genetic level. But the small differences are what tantalize scientists, and now they plan to map the DNA of 1,000 people worldwide to examine human genetic variation. The goal: To create a catalog of these differences, the most detailed yet, that scientists could mine to find variations that help explain why some people get certain illnesses and others don't. The international project was announced Tuesday. It will be a collaboration of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Britain, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and China's Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen. The Human Genome Project offered the first map of the approximately 25,000 human genes in 2003. It was based on a mix of DNA from different people. Only a handful of individual people's DNA has been mapped since. The new project will use DNA donated by anonymous volunteers. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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