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International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium

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International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium

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Human Genome Project completion is announced

📅 14 April 2003

An international consortium announced completion of the original project goals.

A reference sequence becomes a shared resource

📅 14 April 2003

The essentially completed genome gave researchers a foundation for studying human variation and disease.

Many countries contribute to genome sequencing

📅 14 April 2003

The announcement followed large-scale cooperation among publicly funded sequencing centers.

Medical genomics gains a powerful research tool

📅 14 April 2003

Completion was a scientific milestone, not a claim that all genes or diseases had been fully understood.