Today, less than 10 years after from the completion of the Human Genome Project, technological advances have allowed the launch of the 1000 Genomes Project (12) (http://www.1000genomes.org), an international collaboration for sequencing the genomes of approximately 1,200 people from around the world and acquiring an unprecedented wealth of information on human polymorphism and diversity. Like the Human Genome and the HapMap project before it, the 1000 Genomes Project promises to bring this information to the fingertips of researchers, providing a tremendous push forward to human genetics research.
