Who discovered the human genome?

Question

lisa in big brother is claiming it was a mate of hers. who is also a bodyguard. obviously i do not believe this.

Answer 1

Genome unravelling is teamwork done by hundreds of researchers.  Publication of the initial sequencing was in 2001 in a paper called: Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome, Nature, 409, p.860-921 authored by the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium.  The listed authors are:



Lander, Eric S.; Linton, Lauren M.; Birren, Bruce; Nusbaum, Chad; Zody, Michael C.; Baldwin, Jennifer; Devon, Keri; Dewar, Ken; Doyle, Michael; FitzHugh, William; Funke, Roel; Gage, Diane; Harris, Katrina; Heaford, Andrew; Howland, John; Kann, Lisa; Lehoczky, Jessica; LeVine, Rosie; McEwan, Paul; McKernan, Kevin; Meldrim, James; Mesirov, Jill P.; Miranda, Cher; Morris, William; Naylor, Jerome; Raymond, Christina; Rosetti, Mark; Santos, Ralph; Sheridan, Andrew; Sougnez, Carrie; Stange-Thomann, Nicole; Stojanovic, Nikola; Subramanian, Aravind; Wyman, Dudley; Rogers, Jane; Sulston, John; Ainscough, Rachael; Beck, Stephan; Bentley, David; Burton, John; Clee, Christopher; Carter, Nigel; Coulson, Alan; Deadman, Rebecca; Deloukas, Panos; Dunham, Andrew; Dunham, Ian; Durbin, Richard; French, Lisa; Grafham, Darren; Gregory, Simon; Hubbard, Tim; Humphray, Sean; Hunt, Adrienne; Jones, Matthew; Lloyd, Christine; McMurray, Amanda; Matthews, Lucy; Mercer, Simon; Milne, Sarah; Mullikin, James C.; Mungall, Andrew; Plumb, Robert; Ross, Mark; Shownkeen, Ratna; Sims, Sarah; Waterston, Robert H.; Wilson, Richard K.; Hillier, LaDeana W.; McPherson, John D.; Marra, Marco A.; Mardis, Elaine R.; Fulton, Lucinda A.; Chinwalla, Asif T.; Pepin, Kymberlie H.; Gish, Warren R.; Chissoe, Stephanie L.; Wendl, Michael C.; Delehaunty, Kim D.; Miner, Tracie L.; Delehaunty, Andrew; Kramer, Jason B.; Cook, Lisa L.; Fulton, Robert S.; Johnson, Douglas L.; Minx, Patrick J.; Clifton, Sandra W.; Hawkins, Trevor; Branscomb, Elbert; Predki, Paul; Richardson, Paul; Wenning, Sarah; Slezak, Tom; Doggett, Norman; Cheng, Jan-Fang; Olsen, Anne; Lucas, Susan; Elkin, Christopher; Uberbacher, Edward; Frazier, Marvin; Gibbs, Richard A.; Muzny, Donna M.; Scherer, Steven E.; Bouck, John B.; Sodergren, Erica J.; Worley, Kim C.; Rives, Catherine M.; Gorrell, James H.; Metzker, Michael L.; Naylor, Susan L.; Kucherlapati, Raju S.; Nelson, David L.; Weinstock, George M.; Sakaki, Yoshiyuki; Fujiyama, Asao; Hattori, Masahira; Yada, Tetsushi; Toyoda, Atsushi; Itoh, Takehiko; Kawagoe, Chiharu; Watanabe, Hidemi; Totoki, Yasushi; Taylor, Todd; Weissenbach, Jean; Heilig, Roland; Saurin, William; Artiguenave, Francois; Brottier, Philippe; Bruls, Thomas; Pelletier, Eric; Robert, Catherine; Wincker, Patrick; Smith, Douglas R.; Doucette-Stamm, Lynn; Rubenfield, Marc; Weinstock, Keith; Lee, Hong Mei; Dubois, JoAnn; Rosenthal, André; Platzer, Matthias; Nyakatura, Gerald; Taudien, Stefan; Rump, Andreas; Yang, Huanming; Yu, Jun; Wang, Jian; Huang, Guyang; Gu, Jun; Hood, Leroy; Rowen, Lee; Madan, Anup; Qin, Shizen; Davis, Ronald W.; Federspiel, Nancy A.; Abola, A. Pia; Proctor, Michael J.; Myers, Richard M.; Schmutz, Jeremy; Dickson, Mark; Grimwood, Jane; Cox, David R.; Olson, Maynard V.; Kaul, Rajinder; Raymond, Christopher; Shimizu, Nobuyoshi; Kawasaki, Kazuhiko; Minoshima, Shinsei; Evans, Glen A.; Athanasiou, Maria; Schultz, Roger; Roe, Bruce A.; Chen, Feng; Pan, Huaqin; Ramser, Juliane; Lehrach, Hans; Reinhardt, Richard; McCombie, W. Richard; de la Bastide, Melissa; Dedhia, Neilay; Blöcker, Helmut; Hornischer, Klaus; Nordsiek, Gabriele; Agarwala, Richa; Aravind, L.; Bailey, Jeffrey A.; Bateman, Alex; Batzoglou, Serafim; Birney, Ewan; Bork, Peer; Brown, Daniel G.; Burge, Christopher B.; Cerutti, Lorenzo; Chen, Hsiu-Chuan; Church, Deanna; Clamp, Michele; Copley, Richard R.; Doerks, Tobias; Eddy, Sean R.; Eichler, Evan E.; Furey, Terrence S.; Galagan, James; Gilbert, James G. R.; Harmon, Cyrus; Hayashizaki, Yoshihide; Haussler, David; Hermjakob, Henning; Hokamp, Karsten; Jang, Wonhee; Johnson, L. Steven; Jones, Thomas A.; Kasif, Simon; Kaspryzk, Arek; Kennedy, Scot; Kent, W. James; Kitts, Paul; Koonin, Eugene V.; Korf, Ian; Kulp, David; Lancet, Doron; Lowe, Todd M.; McLysaght, Aoife; Mikkelsen, Tarjei; Moran, John V.; Mulder, Nicola; Pollara, Victor J.; Ponting, Chris P.; Schuler, Greg; Schultz, Jörg; Slater, Guy; Smit, Arian F. A.; Stupka, Elia; Szustakowki, Joseph; Thierry-Mieg, Danielle; Thierry-Mieg, Jean; Wagner, Lukas; Wallis, John; Wheeler, Raymond; Williams, Alan; Wolf, Yuri I.; Wolfe, Kenneth H.; Yang, Shiaw-Pyng; Yeh, Ru-Fang; Collins, Francis; Guyer, Mark S.; Peterson, Jane; Felsenfeld, Adam; Wetterstrand, Kris A.; Patrinos, Aristides; Morgan, Michael J.

I'd refer to that as Lander ES et Al.  Of course, that was only the initial sequencing work, not the complete project.

Answer 2

There were two human genome projects.  A private one was led by Craig Venter, and a publicly financed one was done by the Human Genome Consortium.  The U.S. leader was Francis Collins.