Which U.S. president helped announce the rough draft of the human genome on June 26, 2000? Bill Clinton did.
Clinton made the announcement jointly with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, marking the public arrival of a working draft from the Human Genome Project. The event symbolized cooperation among governments, universities, research institutes, and scientists in several countries.
The 2000 announcement did not mean that every letter of human DNA had been read perfectly. It was a rough draft, and important gaps and errors remained. The project continued until its formal completion announcement in April 2003, although some difficult regions required later work.
A common mix-up is confusing this event with the project's launch in 1990 or its completion in 2003. Clinton was the U.S. president at the 2000 announcement; George W. Bush took office the following year.