An international team reveals that human genome could contain up to 20% fewer genes, suggesting that humans may have only 19,000 coding genes, 3,000 fewer than the sum of the three reference annotations of the human genome and a much lower number than the 100,000 predicted just twenty years ago.

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An international team reveals that human genome could contain up to 20% fewer genes, suggesting that humans may have only 19,000 coding genes, 3,000 fewer than the sum of the three reference annotations of the human genome and a much lower number than the 100,000 predicted just twenty years ago.