Surprises in the HGP
For the first time in the history of the world, due to the Human Genome Project, an organism has learned it's own recipe. With that knowledge has come many unpredicted discoveries. Foremost amongst these is the low number of genes humans have. Originally estimated to be close to 100,000, it turns out that we have about 30,000, nearly the same number of genes contained in a mustard plant. In addition, many of our genes are shared with other organisms, striking down many long-held assumptions about the biological uniqueness of humans.
SCIENTISTS SPEAKING ABOUT SURPRISES IN THE HGP
- Michael Ashburner
- David Bentley
- David Botstein
- Aravinda Chakravarti
- Francis Collins
- David Cox
- Charles Delisi
- Richard Gibbs
- Philip Green
- David Haussler
- Eric Lander
- Peter Little
- Maynard Olson
- Ulf Pettersson
- Bruce Roe
- Gerald Rubin
- Fred Sanger
- John Sulston
- Nicholas Wade
- Robert Waterston
- James D. Watson
- James Wyngaarden