How much storage would be required to store a human genome?

If you trust such things, here is what Wikipedia claims (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome#Information_content):

The 2.9 billion base pairs of the haploid human genome correspond to a
maximum of about 725 megabytes of data, since every base pair can be
coded by 2 bits. Since individual genomes vary by less than 1% from
each other, they can be losslessly compressed to roughly 4 megabytes.

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