It now costs just $1 million to sequence the 3 billion base pairs in a genome, while genotyping — which looks at only 500,000 SNPs — is a mere $1,000 .
April 2003 The Human Genome Project — a full map of our genetic code — is completed for $2.7 billion in 13 years.
October 2005 The first phase of the International HapMap Project, a catalog of genetic variations, is published.
December 2005 The Cancer Genome Atlas — a three-year, $100 million pilot project to explore the genetic connections to cancer — is launched.
Mid-2006 The falling price of genotyping microarrays spurs a wave of research as per-test costs inch closer to $1,000.
May 2007 James Watson's whole genome is sequenced at a cost of less than $1 million.
September 2007 Craig Venter publishes the results of his own sequenced genome.
November 2007 23andMe opens for business, offering retail genotyping for $1,000.
October 2013 Deadline for the X Prize Foundation challenge to sequence 100 human genomes for less than $10,000 each.
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