Thirteen years later, Gee’s prediction looks increasingly unlikely, with the Human Genome Project so far having failed to meet expectations. Indeed, in 2010, the science writer Nicholas Wade lamented that, a decade after the project was launched, geneticists were “almost back to square one in knowing where to look for the roots of common disease.”
十三年后，吉的预言变得越来越不可能，而人类基因组计划也没有达到预期。事实上，2010年，科学作家瓦德（Nicholas Wade）哀叹，在人类基因组计划启动十年后，遗传学家“几乎回到了原点，明白了往哪里寻找常见疾病的根源。”