Green is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda and was on the front line of the Human Genome Project from 1990 until scientists successfully determined the sequence of the roughly 3 billion chemical bases that make up human DNA in 2003.

Nine years after the successful sequencing of the human genome, what do you think about the way genomics has shaped science and medicine around the world?

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