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Article: The Human Genome Map: The Death of Genetic Determinism and Beyond.
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- Synthesis/Regeneration
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- June 22, 2001
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The complete human genome map was announced just before Valentine's day [1]. But it was an anticlimax for the proponents, despite much effort to keep up the hype. The scientists declared themselves "surprised" The "book of life" turns out to have as few as 30,000 genes. Craig Venter, whose company Celera raced the publicly funded sequencing consortium to the finishing line, was the only one to read the implications correctly. The number of genes is far less than needed to support the extravagant claims throughout the past decade that individual genes not only determine how our bodies are constructed, what diseases we suffer from, but also our patterns of behaviour, our ...
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