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The horse's genome consists of 2.7 billion units of DNA.
The company says it sells 6.5 billion units of Yakult and Sofyl a year outside Japan.
According to industry estimates, 52.8 billion units of alcohol were consumed in the UK in 2013.
The total size of the human genome is 3.08 billion units of DNA, the consortium now estimates.
Altogether the human genome contains about 3 billion units of DNA, packaged in the form of 23 chromosomes.
He said at a news conference in Leipzig on Thursday that he now had retrieved usable DNA from six Neanderthals and analyzed 3.7 billion units of DNA.
There are 24 human chromosomes, containing some three billion units of DNA.
The first goal of the project will be to sequence three billion units of Neanderthal DNA, corresponding to the full length of the Neanderthal genome.
The genome sequence -- the order of the three billion units of DNA that hold hereditary information -- was obtained in draft form last June.
Sequencing the human genome involves sifting through the three billion units of DNA at the heart of every human cell to identify the 80,000 or so genes that define all inheritable physical and behavioral traits.
The new services will use devices known as SNP chips, which offer a cheap substitute for decoding the three billion units of the human genome, a task that would probably cost $1 million or so per person at present.
