The three-letter abbreviation commonly used for the Human Genome Project is HGP.
The international Human Genome Project aimed to map and sequence the DNA of the human genome, identifying its genes and establishing a reference sequence. It officially began in 1990 and was declared complete in April 2003, making it one of the largest collaborative projects in modern biology.
The public effort involved institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, China, and elsewhere. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy were major sponsors, while the Wellcome Trust supported important British sequencing work.
HGP is sometimes confused with terms such as genome mapping, DNA sequencing, or the later Telomere-to-Telomere project. Those describe methods or subsequent efforts, not the project’s standard abbreviation. The first working draft was announced in 2000, and the project’s reference genome was assembled from DNA contributed by multiple anonymous donors rather than representing one complete individual.