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The Human Genome Project did not end in 2003. Its results opened the door to personalized medicine, genetic testing, ancestry research, and many modern biomedical technologies. The project also promoted open science through policies such as the Bermuda Principles, which encouraged scientists to share genetic data quickly and freely instead of keeping it private until publication (Collins et al., 2003).

In 2022, researchers completed the first truly complete human genome sequence using advanced sequencing technologies. This achievement filled in regions that could not be read during the original HGP and demonstrated how far genomic science has progressed since 2003 (T2T Consortium, 2022).