1999
- March 1999 – Large-scale sequencing of the human genome begins.
- September 1999 – Human Genome Project (HGP) scientists confirm they are on schedule to produce the working draft of the genetic blueprint of humankind by spring 2000.
- October 1999 – President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton host the eighth Millennium Evening at the White House. The program is titled "Informatics Meets Genomics."
- November 12, 1999 – The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) hosts the first annual "Consumer Day" conference to inform patients, families and health care providers about the impact of the Human Genome Project (HGP).
- November 1999 – The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Department of Energy (DOE) and the Wellcome Trust hold a celebration of the completion and deposition into GenBank of one billion base pairs of the human genome DNA sequence.
- December 1999 – The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other Human Genome Project (HGP)-funded scientists unravel for the first time the genome of an entire human chromosome. The findings are reported in the December 2 issue of Nature.
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