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If the Human Genome
Were a Novel You Had to Edit...
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It would have 23 chapters and contain about 6 million pages.
The author would only allow you to read 500 words at one time.
Some of the sections would repeat themselves.
There would be no paragraphs or punctuation, and only 5 percent of the words would be relevant to the plot.
The sections wouldn’t be delivered in chronological order, so you would have to decipher whether you were reading from the end, middle, or beginning of the story.
—Compiled with help from Bret Pearson,
Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Neuroscience
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