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Human Genome Initiative

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Human Genome Initiative
Collective name for several projects begun in 1986 by DOE to create an ordered set of DNA segments from known chromosomal locations, develop new computational methods for analyzing genetic map and DNA sequence data, ...

 


The Human Genome Initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy*
Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Department of Energy, DOE, Germantown, Md., September 1988.

Initiation of the Project was the culmination of several years of work supported by the US Department of Energy, in particular a feasibility workshop in 1986 and a subsequent detailed description of the Human Genome Initiative in a report that led to ...

In 1986, the DOE announced its Human Genome Initiative. Shortly thereafter, the DOE and National Institutes of Health developed a plan for a joint Human Genome Project ('HGP'), which officially began in 1990.

See also: Genome, Genome project, DNA, Human Genome Project, Human

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