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Published online 22 November 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061120-9
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Human genome more variable than previously thought
Surprisingly large segments of DNA found to differ from person to person.
Nearly six years after the sequence of the human genome was sketched out, one might assume that researchers had worked out what all that DNA means. But a new investigation has left them wondering just how similar one person's genome is to another's.
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