La secuencia del genoma humano

J C Venter1, M D Adams, E W Myers

  • 1Celera Genomics, 45 West Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. humangenome@celera.com

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 22, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

La secuencia del genoma humano revela más de 38.000 transcripciones que codifican proteínas y millones de polimorfismos de un solo nucleótido (SNP), ofreciendo información sobre la evolución y las enfermedades. Este mapa completo del genoma humano proporciona una base para futuras investigaciones genéticas.

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