The Human Genome Project
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is a worldwide research effort with the goal of
analyzing the structure of human DNA and determining the location of the
estimated 100,000 human genes. The DNA of a set of model organisms will be
studied to provide the information necessary for understanding the functioning
of the human genome. Th ....
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.... in the mid 1980's and was widely examined
within the scientific community and public press through the last half of that
decade. In the United States, the Department of Energy (DOE) initially, and the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) soon after, were the main research agencies
within the US government responsible for developing and planning the project. By
1988, the two agencies were working together, an association that was formalized
by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to "c ....
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