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The 29 pages that link to Human Genome Project, each with the reason it gives.

• EugenicsRelated: Its findings renewed debate over whether genetic knowledge might revive eugenic ambitions.

• DNA sequencingRelated: Its completion demonstrated the scale and coordination required for large-scale sequencing.

• National Academy of SciencesRelated: Academy committees assessed priorities and scientific issues surrounding large-scale genomics.

• Systems biologyRelated: Genome-scale data made comprehensive, quantitative biological analysis newly practical.

• BiochemistryRelated: It expanded molecular biology’s scope from individual molecules to a genome-wide resource.

• National Institutes of HealthRelated: NIH was a principal U.S. funder and coordinator of this landmark research effort.

• BioinformaticsRelated: Its scale drove major advances in sequence databases and analysis tools.

• Frederick SangerRelated: Sanger sequencing supplied much of the project’s early large-scale sequence data.

• James WatsonRelated: Watson became an early public advocate for sequencing the human genome.

• NatureRelated: Nature published a landmark draft genome sequence in 2001.

• Genetic determinismRelated: Its completion raised expectations that genes would explain complex human traits more directly than they do.

• Sanger sequencingRelated: Large-scale Sanger sequencing supplied much of its original sequence data.

• Sydney BrennerRelated: Brenner’s advocacy for large-scale sequencing helped advance genome research.

• Walter GilbertRelated: Gilbert advocated a large-scale effort to sequence the human genome before the project began.

• Computational biologyRelated: The project generated a scale of genomic data that accelerated computational biology.

• Double helixRelated: Reading genomic sequence builds on DNA’s stable, strand-based molecular organization.

• Renato DulbeccoRelated: Dulbecco’s 1986 call to sequence the human genome helped stimulate support for the project.

• History of biotechnologyRelated: Its completion expanded genomic research and biotechnology’s medical ambitions.

• Mark R. HughesRelated: Disease-gene mapping methods Hughes helped develop fed into broader genome research.

• Relationship between science and religionRelated: Its findings raised religious and ethical questions about human identity, heredity, and intervention.