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How many genes do we have?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

I stole this picture from Science so I am probably in a world of copyright pain right now, but I felt like sharing it with you…

Measured by number of genes we are really quite primitive.  Of course, the systems biology has a few things to say about the complexity, but the total number of human genes is really surprisingly low.

244-252=-8