Researchers Report Genetic Advance
In a major step toward an era of personalized medicine, researchers reported Wednesday that they have sequenced the complete DNA material of more than 1,000 people from 14 population groups in Europe, Africa, East Asia and the Americas.
The report from the $120 million 1000 Genomes Project project involved 700 scientists from laboratories in the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, and Kenya, among others.