Have humans enough genes to account for 6 billion individuals?

Subject: Have humans enough genes to account for 6 billion individuals?

Date: Sun Jan 2 18:38:47 2000
Posted by I. Maclean
Grade level: nonaligned School: none
City: Dartmouth State/Province: N.S. Country: Canada
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 946859927.Ge

Message:


Humans have about 70,000 genes most of which must code for proteins whose 
structure cannot vary from person to person. Are there enough genes 
remaining to account for all the variation seen between individual?

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