Draft of Human Genome Published

Date: February 15, 2001 • Location: Rome, Italy

The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.[citation needed]

The human genome is a complete set of DNA sequences for each of the 22 autosomes and the two distinct sex chromosomes in humans. A small DNA molecule is found within individual mitochondria. These are usually treated separately as the nuclear genome and the mitochondrial genome.