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Nature Reviews Genetics 9, 729 (1 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrg2460

Human genomics: Which differences make us different?

Mary Muers

To discover what makes us different genetically, including our genetic predisposition to disease, the first major challenge is to find individual variations in our DNA sequence. Although sequencing the complete genome of one person can be done, it is still a mammoth task.