title: The human genome: information content and structure.
abstract: At a length of two meters and a width of two billionths of a meter, the genome amounts to a library whose code letters carry complete instructions for building and maintaining a human. Until recently, the code was modified only by mutation and natural selection. Today, however, we possess the technology to read and write DNA. The consequent knowledge is already changing medical practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000639:trends*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D004247:DNA