The 1000 Genomes Project has produced a compendium of millions of previously unknown single-nucleotide polymorphisms and other variants, described in work published this week. A second analysis in this week's issue of Science describes an approach for determining another aspect of genetic variation that arises when genes and other stretches of DNA are duplicated.
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Elizabeth Pennisi (2010) studied this question.