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Nature Medicine 7, 275 (2001)
doi:10.1038/85399

Cracking the Genome

Peter P. Tolias1

  1. Center for Applied Genomics, Public Health Research Institute and UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Newark, New Jersey, USA

In less than 50 years, the field of genetics has evolved rapidly, from solving the structure of DNA to obtaining our first glimpse of the nucleotide sequence of the human genome. Cracking the Genome chronicles the major scientific milestones and drama that led to what author Kevin Davies rightly refers to as "the greatest scientific discovery of our time.

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