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Human Genome Project

n.

An international research effort to map and identify the role of all genes in the human genome.

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human genome project,

n a federally sponsored research project to identify and map the entire gene pool.

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Human Genome Project A multinational collaborative effort to sequence–map all 80,000+ genes and 3 x 109 nucleotides of a haploid set of the human genome, begun in 1986 and completed in 2002 at a total cost of US $3 x 109. Cf Bioinformatics, Genomics, Junk DNA, Rough draft, Sequencers.