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The 1000 Genomes Project, launched in January 2008, is an international research effort to establish by far the most detailed catalogue of human genetic variation. Scientists planned to sequence the genomes of at least one thousand anonymous participants from a number of different ethnic groups within the following three years, using newly developed technologies which were faster and less expensive. In 2010, the project finished its pilot phase, which was described in detail in a publication in the journal Nature.[1] In October 2012, the sequencing of 1092 genomes was announced in a Nature publication.[2] Additional text

Background
Since the completion of the Human Genome Project advances in human population genetics and comparative genomics have made it possible to gain increasing insight into the nature of genetic diversity.[4] However, we are just beginning to understand how processes like the random sampling of gametes, structural variations (insertions/deletions (indels), copy number variations (CNV), retroelements), single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and natural selection have shaped the level and pattern of variation within species and also between species.[5][6][7][8]

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Pilot phase
The pilot phase consisted of three projects: low-coverage whole-genome sequencing of 179 individuals from 4 populations high-coverage sequencing of 2 trios (mother-father-child) exon-targeted sequencing of 697 individuals from 7 populations