Acknowledgements 



The Office of Health and Environmental Research gratefully acknowledges the 

 contributions made by genome research grantees and contractors in submitting 

 abstracts, photographs, captions, and narratives, Charles Cantor and Sylvia Spengler 

 of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory provided the material adapted for the "Primer on 

 Molecular Genetics"' in Appendix A. "The Alta Summit, December 1984." by Robert 

 Mullan Cook-Deegan was reprinted with the pennission of Gt'iiiniiics. which is 

 published by Academic Press. Inc, The glossary in Appendix C was adapted from 

 the glossary in the April 19S8 U,S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment 

 publication: Mappini; Our Genes — The Genome Projects: How Bii;'.' How fast? 

 Finally, the Human Genome Management Infonnation System at Oak Ridge 

 National Laboratory (operated by Martin Marietta Energy Systems. Inc.. for the 

 U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400) is recognized for 

 collecting and organizing the information, preparing the manuscript, and implementing 

 the design and production of this publication. 



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