It continues 25 years of research at deCODE genetics into how new diversity is generated in the human genome, and its relationship to health and disease. The new map, appearing today in the online ...

One goal of the project was to accurately sequence the 3 billion nucleotide base pairs in the human genome. A second goal was to map and identify all of the human genes present in the DNA sequence.

Illumina is an applied genomics technology company that was founded in 1998 with the mission statement: ‘To improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome’. Over the past two ...