You describe yourself as a rather obnoxious atheist in your youth ... Picture of Francis Collins courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

As head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes ... I was increasingly more inclined to be an atheist. And, in fact, I would’ve called myself that as a graduate student.

Less than 2% of the human genome is composed of class 2 TEs. This means that the majority of the substantial portion of the human genome that is mobile consists of the other major class of TEs ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.