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Nature 447, 242-243 (17 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447242c; Published online 16 May 2007

Time runs short for HapMap

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Geneticists celebrate success - and look to the future.

Geneticists at the genomics meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week celebrated the success of the International HapMap project — and predicted its eventual demise.The project, unveiled in 2005, is a database of markers of genetic diversity called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.