A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures (Published 2010)

Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits. For biologists, the genome has yielded one insightful surprise after another. But the primary goal of the $3 billion Human Genome Project � to ferret out the genetic roots of common diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s and then gen

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"hundreds of common genetic variants have been statistically linked with various diseases. But with most diseases, common variants turned out to explain just fraction of genetic risk. seems more likely that each common disease is mostly caused by large numbers of rare variants"