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Introduction The project began in 1990 and was completed in 2003, costing approximately $3.8 billion and involving hundreds of scientists worldwide. The HGP was a collaborative effort between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, China, and Russia. Its goal was to develop tools that would allow for medical advances to be made based on genetic information and research on human health and disease. It also sought to identify the sequence of all human genes, which is estimated at 20, 000-25, 000 genes; determine the complete sequence of an individual's genome, determine the complete sequence of many ... Read More