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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The Human Genome Project was an international scientific effort, completed in 2003, that mapped and sequenced the entire set of human DNA base pairs.
- When did the Human Genome Project begin and end?
- How does the Human Genome Project relate to gene editing technologies like CRISPR?
- Why was only about 92 per cent of the genome sequenced by 2003?
- What is India's equivalent or follow-on genomics initiative?

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The Human Genome Project was an international scientific effort, completed in 2003, that mapped and sequenced the entire set of human DNA base pairs.

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1. 1 October 1990

   The Human Genome Project (HGP) was a publicly funded, international research programme launched on to determine the complete nucleotide sequence of human de…

2. 26 June 2000

   A working draft covering roughly 90 per cent of the euchromatic genome was jointly announced on by U.S.

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In April 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, led by NIH's Francis Collins and the UK's Wellcome Sanger Institute, declared the human genome essentially complete, fifty years after the discovery of the DNA double helix.

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