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  • Human Genome Project Is Created

    The Office for Human Genome Research is created within the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health. Also, NIH and the Department of Energy sign a memorandum of understanding to "coordinate research and technical activities related to the human genome."

  • Official beginning of Human Genome project

  • Human genetic mapping goal achieved one year ahead of schedule.

  • An international team completes the DNA sequence of the first eukaryotic genome, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or common brewer's yeast.

  • Scientists from government, university and commercial laboratories around the world reveal a map that pinpoints the locations of over 16,000 genes in human DNA.

  • National Center for Human Genome Research and other researchers identify the location of the first gene associated with Parkinson's disease.

  • National Center for Human Genome Research and other researchers identify the location of the first major gene that predisposes men to prostate cancer.

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute and other scientists show that three specific alterations in the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are associated with an increased risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers.

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute scientists precisely identify a gene abnormality that causes some cases of Parkinson's disease.

  • A map of human chromosome 7 is completed.

  • identify an altered gene that causes Pendred Syndrome, a inherited form of deafness.

  • research study finds the site of a gene for susceptibility to prostate cancer on the X chromosome. This is the first time a gene for a common type of cancer is mapped to the X chromosome.

  • The genome of the tiny roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans) is sequenced by researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other Human Genome Project (HGP)-funded scientists.

  • Large-scale sequencing of the human genome begins.

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute, Department of Energy and the Wellcome Trust hold a celebration of the completion and deposition into GenBank of one billion base pairs of the human genome DNA sequence

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other Human Genome Project (HGP)-funded scientists unravel for the first time the genetic code of an entire human chromosome. The findings are reported in the December 2 issue of Nature [nature.com]

  • A public consortium of scientists and a private company release a substantially complete genome sequence of the fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). The findings are reported in the March 24 issue of Science [scienceonline.org].

  • Scientists in Japan and Germany report in the May 18 issue of Nature [nature.com] that they have unraveled the genetic code of human chromosome 21, already known to be involved with Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, Usher syndrome and Lou Gehrig's disea

  • The Human Genome Project consortium announces a major milestone: It has assembled 85 percent of the sequence of the human genome - the genetic blueprint for a human being.

  • Scientists discover a genetic "signature" that may help explain how malignant melanoma - a deadly form of skin cancer - can spread to other parts of the body. Findings are reported in the August 3 issue of Nature. [nature.com]

  • The National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, and three private companies collaborate to form the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium (MGSC) to accelerate the determination of the DNA sequence of the mouse genome.

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy announce April 2003 events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix, the completion of the human genome sequence and the publication of the vision

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute celebrates the completion of the human genome sequence

  • National Human Genome Research Institute researchers identify the gene that causes the premature aging disorder progeria.

  • A detailed analysis of the just-completed sequence of the human Y chromosome

  • A detailed analysis of the reference sequence of chromosome 7,uncovers structural features that appear to promote genetic changes that can cause disease

  • findings on the comparison of 13 vertebrate genomes

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute announces that the first draft version of the honey bee genome sequence has been deposited into free public databases.

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute and other scientists successfully create transgenic animals using sperm genetically modified and grown in a laboratory dish, an achievement with implications for wide ranging research, from developmental biolog

  • announces that the first draft version of the chicken genome sequence has been deposited into free public databases.

  • find variants in a gene that may predispose people to type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute announces that the first draft version of the dog genome sequence has been deposited into free public databases.

  • discover a possible inherited component for lung cancer, a disease normally associated with external causes, such as cigarette smoking.

  • discover a possible inherited component for lung cancer, a disease normally associated with external causes, such as cigarette smoking.

  • In a surprising development, a research team led by NHGRI finds that a class of experimental anti-cancer drugs shows promise in laboratory studies for treating the fatal genetic disorder that causes premature aging.

  • The first comprehensive comparison of the genetic blueprints of humans and chimpanzees shows our closest living relatives share perfect identity with 96 percent of our DNA sequence.

  • National Human Genome Research Institute researchers identify new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes. In the most comprehensive look at genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes to date, a U.S.- Finnish team, working in close collaboration with two o

  • An international team of scientists, supported in part by the National Human Genome Research Institute, announces that its systematic effort to map the genomic changes underlying lung cancer has uncovered a critical gene alteration not previously linked t

  • Research organizations from around the world announce they are launching the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), a collaboration designed to generate high-quality genomic data on up to 50 types of cancer through efforts projected to take up to

  • A team that includes researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found a new way of detecting functional regions in the human genome. The novel approach involves looking at the three-dimensional shape of the genome's DNA and not just read

  • The National Institutes of Health announce awards to support the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, an initiative to understand how genetic variation may control gene activity and its relationship to disease. The roject will create a resource rese