Featured Site OMIM , O nline M endelian I nheritance in M an. Catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and colleagues, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. A new plan, for 1998-2003, is presented, in which human DNA sequencing will be the major emphasis. Most resources are available now on the Web and the rest will make the transition before UWIN disappears on June 30, 1999. The sequence consists of about 97 million base pairs of DNA, approximately one-thirtieth the number in the human genome.
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