Genetic differences between people far more important than previously thought. How to count the American scientist Craig Venter, who heads his own research laboratory - Craig Venter Institute in Rockville (Maryland), a common genetic code with representatives of the human race is not an average 99,9%, as stated earlier, and 99.5%. Accordingly, the proportion of genetic differences between individuals is not 0.1% and 0.5% of DNA. Sam Venter believes that this figure may reach even 1%. In the course of studies which were published in the journal PloS Biology ( "Bulletin of the Public Library of Science. Biology), Dr. Venter is also fully decoded own genetic code, analyze and compare large DNA fragments, he inherited from his father and mother. As far as we know, he became the first scientist who managed to do it, said Itar-Tass. The results offer new horizons, in particular, to doctors studying the genetic basis of disease. On the decoding of code of the human genome was announced in the United States six years ago. However, the result in the receipt of which Venter is also actively participated, was not strictly individual and aggregate data of several people. In addition, he was known to be "incomplete", ie, covering only a single, not paired chromosome set. In the new study, this disadvantage largely eliminated. Encouraging and reducing the cost of modern genetic research. Preparation of the first part of the human genome took more than 10 years, cost billions of dollars. Venter's work, according to his colleagues and "competitors" from Harvard, George Church, worth tens of millions. Now, however, writes with reference to "some scientists" newspaper Washington Post, the full diploid (doubles) the genome of a concrete person can probably make about 100 thousand dollars. And in five years, according to some projections, the price will fall and up to 1 thousand dollars. Presumably, in such a scenario analysis of individual DNA will become standard medical practice.