An overview, benefits and methodology of HGP

• Introduction
• Human Genome
• International HGP
• National Institutes of Health
• Celera Genomics & HGP
• Goals
• Methodology
• Benefits
• Summary
• Figures

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Introduction

- Human Genome Project

By Sachin Chorge

Submitted on January 2008

Accepted on February 2008 
 

The Human Genome Project (HGP) is a project to map and sequence the 3 billion nucleotides contained in the human genome and to identify all the genes present in it. There are currently two human genome projects: the first is the international HGP which is being produced by a group of international government bodies and organisations, and the second by a private company Celera Genomics.The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the great feats of exploration in history - an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of the planet or the cosmos; an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes - together known as the genome - of members of our species, Homo sapiens. Completed in April 2003, the HGP gave us the ability to, for the first time, to read nature's complete genetic blueprint for building a human being.