A consortium of six nations is diving into a massive new genomics project it hopes will pinpoint the genes behind common diseases. After months of passing the hat among countries and private companies, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced earlier this week that it's garnered the $100 million the 3-year effort to construct a so-called haplotype map is likely to cost. But even as the project was announced with considerable fanfare, many details remained sketchy.
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