Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item

March 4, 2008 | Source: New York Times

A second person has announced he’ll pay a private company to sequence his entire genome for $350,000.

He hopes to persuade others to participate and add to the collective knowledge about the human genome at a time when personal sequencing is not yet inexpensive.

Scientists have so far unraveled only four completed human genome sequences.

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