Seventy-six percent of all currently patented human genetic data are privately held; Japan's biotech giant Takeda Corp. leads the world with 63 patents; the United States' Genentech is second with 41 patents.

CURRENT HUMAN GENE PATENTS, WORLDWIDE	GENE TYPE	SOURCE	OWNER	COUNTRY	PATENT VALUE (US$)
	Asthma	Tristan de Cunha	Boehringer-Ingelheim	Germany	$70,000,000
	Asthma	India	Smith-Kline Beecham	US	$50,000,000
	Leukemia	Papua New Guinea	National Institutes of Health	US	n/a
	Obesity	US	Imogen, Inc.	US	$20,000,000