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 ...

Researchers have mapped 50,000 of DNA's mysterious "knots" in the human genome. The innovative study ... EMBO Journal is the first comprehensive map of these unique DNA structures, shedding ...

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.

The human genome is no more than a string of four letters -- A, T, C, and G -- repeated over and over, more than three billion times. To the untrained eye, these letters, also known as nucleotides ...

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

researchers have sequenced all 3.2 billion base pairs in the human genome. How did researchers complete this chromosome map years ahead of schedule? Initial Principles and Goals of the Human ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

A genome is the complete set of genetic information contained within an organism. It includes all the DNA that makes up an organism's chromosomes, which are tightly coiled structures located in the ...