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The HGP and Celera both said there were 30, 000 protein-coding genes, a mere one-third of previous estimates.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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By contrast, the current estimate of the number of protein-coding genes in the human genome is 23, 000.
ECONOMIST: Genomics has not yet delivered the drugs, but it will
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What they have found is that about 1, 800 protein-coding genes, some 7% of the total known, show signs of having been subject to recent natural selection.
ECONOMIST: Human evolution
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Though the average bacterium has fewer than 5, 000 genes, compared with around 20, 000 protein-coding genes in the average mammal (bacteria do not go in much for RNA-only genes), there are lots of species of bacteria.
ECONOMIST: Inhuman genomes