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GENETICS: Working the (Gene Count) Numbers: Finally, a Firm Answer?
Elizabeth Pennisi
COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK--At the Biology of Genomes meeting here earlier this month, it was reported that humans may have only 20,488 genes, with perhaps 100 more yet to be discovered.