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The human genome map is made up of approximately 20,000 genes.

The award-winning scientists are Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar.

The research has been conducted with Holocaust surviving families.

A team of Spanish scientists have managed to create the first atlas of the genetic diversity of the butterflies of the Iberian Peninsula.

Deoxyribonucleic acid. More than a substance it looks like a tongue twister.

In scientific terms, sequencing is the determination of the order of nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule or the order of amino acids in a protein.

The first step was taken by the United Kingdom after approving last February an assisted reproduction technique that was based on the use of the DNA of three people (with eggs from two women and the sperm of a man) to prevent any baby from being born with Communicable diseases, especially those incurable such as Fragile X syndrome, a rare genetic disease.

A team of researchers, led by Icelandic scientist Kari Stefansson, has succeeded in sequencing the genomes of more than 100,000 Icelandic inhabitants. It is undoubtedly the largest study of the complete human genome of a single population. The work has been divided into several different studies and they have been published by the journal Nature Genetics.