Scope and Contents This collection contains the paper materials of former NHGRI Directors James Watson, Michael Gottesman and Francis Collins, created and accumulated during their respective tenures as Directors of the NHGRI (formerly the NCHGR) from 1990 to 2008. Many of the files in this collection also predate the creation of the institute, including files from the early planning meetings for what would become the Human Genome Project in the mid to late 1980s. The bulk of this...

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This series contains materials related to the International HapMap Project, including meeting files, press materials, correspondence, draft papers, and notes. The HapMap began after the completion of the Human Genome Project and ran from 2003 to 2006. It was a global effort aimed at relateing variations in the human DNA sequences with genes associated with health.