Whitehead's Eric S. Lander Assesses the Human Genome Project
The
sequencing of the human genome was a decade and a half in the making and
undeniably represents one of the great achievements of modern science. To
geneticists and biologists it also represents the opportunity to elucidate, for
the first time ever, the genetic basis of human variation and the genes that
underlie common human diseases. Some researchers are just now phrasing the
questions they want to ask of the genome sequence. Others, like geneticist Eric
S. Lander of the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, have known the
questions for 15 years and have spent much of the intervening time working on
the sequence so that they could get their answers.
As director for the Whitehead's
Center for Genome Research, Lander was...
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