BOSTON — No one really knows all the genetic parts needed to make a human being.
Picking out and counting the genes among the billions of DNA letters (shown here as four different colors) that make up the human genome has proved daunting. M. Tama/Getty Images
Estimates of the number of human genes have fallen and narrowed in range over the years as research has shed more light on how genes are arrayed along DNA.
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