Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes

Many people expected the question 'How many genes in the human genome?' to be resolved with the publication of the genome sequence in 2001, but estimates continue to fluctuate.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2010-05-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-206PMID 20441615PMCID 2898077
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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