Comment by jltsiren

Craig Venter had his genome sequenced in 2007. It was the first individual human genome that was sequenced and released publicly.

The human reference genome is ~70% from a man with African and European ancestry who lived somewhere around Buffalo, NY. Most of the rest is from ~20 other individuals in the same area. They were supposed to sequence the samples more evenly, but apparently there were some technical reasons that made them prioritize a single sample.