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.

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

The Human Genome Project was an international research project that sequenced all of the genes found in humans. This ambitious project began in 1990 and concluded in 2003. One goal of the project ...