Medscape December 11, 2020
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton announced completion of what was arguably one of the greatest advances of the modern era: the first draft sequence of the human genome.
“Without a doubt, this is the most important, the most wondrous map ever produced by humankind,” Clinton said on June 26, 2000 from the White House, predicting that genome science “will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.” In the future, he said, “doctors will increasingly be able to cure diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and cancer by attacking their genetic roots.”
And indeed, the sequencing of the human genome — achieved simultaneously by the Human Genome Project (HGP), an international consortium begun in 1990...
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