Fact-check · Sep 29, 2026
“After seven years, we'd only decoded 1% of the human genome”
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What the record shows
By 1997 (7 years into the 1990 start), approximately 1–3% of the human genome had been sequenced. NIH/DOE Human Genome Project progress reports.
From: Announcement on America.gov
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