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Thank you. We're here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.

Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind.

The moment we are here to witness was brought about from brilliant and painstaking work of scientists all over the world, including many men and women.

It was June 2000. President Bill Clinton was in the crowded White House East Room, announcing a momentous achievement.

Government scientists had decoded nearly all three billion letters of the human genetic blueprint.

The excitement and the hype was intense.

President Clinton painted a tantalizing picture of the opening of a new scientific frontier.

With this profound new knowledge, humankind is on the verge of gaining immense new power

to heal.

Genome science will have a real impact on all our lives, and even more on the lives of

our children.

It will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.

In coming years, doctors increasingly will be able to cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,

diabetes, and cancer by attacking their genetic roots.

It didn't work out that way. At least not exactly. Welcome to Prognosis. I'm your host, Michelle

Fay-Cortez. This week we're going to tell you what happened after the press conference

and how one of the greatest undertakings in medical history, the decoding of

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