Genomeweb Birney Announces Winners of Wager on Number of Human Genes - "GeneSweep, a friendly wager in which participants bet on the number of genes on the human genome, is officially over, and there are three winners -- although genome scientists have not definitively agreed on a number of genes in the human genome." "Birney said that there were 24,500 genes in the latest Ensembl build, human build 33. But he stopped short of saying that this number represents any final tally on the number of human genes. "We are confident we have about 21,000 genes in the human [Snowdeal: Bioinformatics]
A friendly sweepstakes started a couple of years ago at the annual CSHL meeting by Ewan Birney, with a very simple question: how many genes in the human genome? The 33rd Ensemble build indicates 21,000 or so, a far cry from the 100,000 commonly quoted around 5 years ago. [Apparently, my boss is on record for about 75k.]
