The scientific achievement, which has taken decades, offers insights into people's genetic building blocks.
Scientists say they have completed the first full and seamless catalogue of genetic instructions of humans.
The first one, deciphered 20 years ago, included most of the regions that code for proteins but left out about 200 million bases - the rungs that make up the ladder of the famous double helix DNA structure.Tour de force In the early 90s, when the first attempt at cracking the human genome began, the science of reading DNA was still somewhat limited. The repeats could too easily be skipped or their bases linked together incorrectly.
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