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Science 21 December 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5858, p. 1833
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154158
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Editorial

Breakthrough of the Year

Donald Kennedy

The breakthrough of this year has to do with humans, genomes, and genetics. But it is not about THE human genome (as if there were only one!). Instead, it is about your particular genome, or mine, and what it can tell us about our backgrounds and the quality of our futures.

Donald Kennedy is the Editor-in-Chief of Science.

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