"Today,
researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, along with
collaborators from Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,
the University of California, San Diego, and the Universidad
de Barcelona in Spain have published the first diploid genome
of an individual—Dr. Venter, in PLoS Biology. This
analysis and assembly of the 20 billion base pairs of Dr.
Venter’s DNA is the first look at both sets of his
chromosomes (one inherited from each of his parents) and
has shown a greater degree and more kinds of genetic variation
with human to human variation five to seven times greater
than in previous genome analysis.
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