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dnauticstoday at 2:13 AM3 repliesview on HN

i believe he also was the human genome project, he arranged to have one of the samples be him


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jltsirentoday at 2:38 AM

Craig Venter had his genome sequenced in 2007. It was the first individual human genome that was sequenced and released publicly.

The human reference genome is ~70% from a man with African and European ancestry who lived somewhere around Buffalo, NY. Most of the rest is from ~20 other individuals in the same area. They were supposed to sequence the samples more evenly, but apparently there were some technical reasons that made them prioritize a single sample.

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acmjtoday at 2:57 AM

You are confused by the human genome project vs the celera genome project. No, the human genome project didn't include his sample.

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moralestapiatoday at 2:39 AM

Yes, his was the first complete genome ever sequenced (by a private entity).

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