The human genome, 25 years later: how medicine has changed

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On June 26, 2000, then-US President Bill Clinton appeared before cameras worldwide to announce a historic milestone: humanity had just obtained the first draft of the human genome, "the most wonderful and important map ever produced by mankind." Beside him were his British counterpart, Tony Blair, a handful of scientists, and representatives from Celera Genomics, the private company commanded by geneticist Craig Venter , who had competed to sequence our DNA before anyone else.