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Who made contributions to the Human Genome Project?

The Human Genome Project was a public funded project. Funds were given by the US National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy of the US. From the United Kingdom there were contributions from the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. Scientists from 20 institutes, spread across 20 countries were part of this project. You can read about the IndiGen Genome Project: Aims, Benefits and Challenges in the given link.

Further readings:

  1. Earth Bio-Genome Project (EBP) – An Overview
  2. Genome – Brief Facts

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