In this week's Nature, the 1,000 Genomes Project Consortium reports results from its pilot phase, which included three projects: "low-coverage whole-genome sequencing of 179 individuals from four populations, high-coverage sequencing of two mother-father-child trios, and exon-targeted sequencing of 697 individuals from seven populations." In its paper, the 1,000 Genomes team shares the "location, allele frequency and local haplotype structure of approximately 15 million SNPs, 1 milli