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Nature 429, 332 (27 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429332b

Japan announces follow-up to human genome project

David Cyranoski

Japan is launching the Genome Network, a five-year, ¥15-billion (US$130-million) initiative that will attempt to build on the human genome project and systematically study the function of all human genes.The initiative will collate experimental data on all 30,000 human genes, says Yoshihide Hayashizaki, a researcher at the Genomic Sciences Center (GSC) in Yokohama and member of the project's steering committee.

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