Grand Celebration: 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project

Dear Colleagues,

In 1990, scientists began working together on one of the largest biological research projects ever proposed. The project proposed to sequence the 3 billion nucleotides in the human genome. The Human Genome Project took 13 years and was completed on April 2003 at a cost of approximately three billion dollars. It was a major scientific achievement that forever changed the understanding of our own nature. The sequencing of the human genome was in many ways a triumph for technology as much as it was for science. From the Human Genome Project powerful technologies have been developed (e.g. microarrays and next generation sequencing) and new branches of science have emerged (e.g. functional genomics and pharmacogenomics), paving new ways for advancing genomic research and medical applications of genomics in the 21th Century. The investigations have provided new tests and drug targets as well as insights into the basis of human development and diagnosis/treatment of cancer and several mysterious humans diseases. This genomic revolution is prompting a new era in medicine, which brings both challenges and opportunities. Parallel to the promising advances over the last decade, the study of the human genome has also revealed how complicated human biology is, and how much remains to be understood. The legacy of the understanding of our genome has just begun. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the essential completion of the Human Genome Project, Genes launched in April 2013 this Special Issue which will highlight the recent scientific breakthroughs on human genomics with a collection of papers written by authors who are leading experts in the field.

Prof. Dr. Karen E. Nelson
Prof. Sir John Burn
Prof. Dr. James R. Lupski
Mr. Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto
Guest Editors

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