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Human genome sequence

Identifying genes is still a challenge, more than a decade after the completion of the human genome project.

Credit: Alan Phillips/Getty

One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork.

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