Humans are fishy....

[flowomo]

Human Gene Total Falls Below 25,000
By NICHOLAS WADE

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A new and perhaps final report from the international consortium of laboratories that decoded the human genome has revised the estimated number of human genes sharply downward.

About 20,000 human genes have been identified, and up to 5,000 more may await discovery, the group is reporting today in the journal Nature....

The 30,000 figure was itself a surprising downgrade from the 100,000 human genes commonly said to exist as recently as five years ago, before the exact sequence of DNA units in the genome was decoded.

Coincidentally, French researchers are reporting in the same issue of Nature that they have decoded the genome of a biologically important fish, the spotted green pufferfish. They say it has 20,000 to 25,000 genes, the identical range now estimated for humans. (snip)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/science/21gene.html?ex=1099108800&en=a14ad8310fabc319&ei=5043&partner=EXCITE