Entire
genome of Noble laureate, James D. Watson has been
deciphered very recently in 2007. Watson was one of the discoverers of the
structure of DNA in 1953. This
sequencing opened new vistas in
personalized genomic medicine. A copy of his genome was recorded on a pair of DVD''s and
presented to Watson.
Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Human
Genome Sequencing
Center at the Baylor College of
medicine proposed the idea of sequencing Dr. Watson’s genome. Dr. Jonathan
Rothberg, founder of the company 454 Life Sciences has told that they decoded
Dr. Watson’s genome using latest version of innovative DNA sequencing machine
within two months at a cost of less than $1 million.
The instrumental in sequencing Dr. Watson DNA is attributed
to his discovery that DNA is the basis of heredity, and also he is the first
director of prestigious human genome project completed the sequencing of first
human genome in 2003, thus said Dr. Rothberg.Dr. Watson told to provide his entire genome for researcher
study, with the exception of a single gene “apolipoprotein E gene”.
Two genome sequences of individuals will be made available.
One being Watson and another belong to J. Craig Venter, president of the Celera
Corporation, who started a separate human genome project in competition with
the government. Their dare action to allow researchers to
study and reveal
their genomes means revealing their mutations, prior and future information’s
about themselves and their relatives.
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