It comes less than a week after Iran announced an even larger discovery of crude oil, and is the latest in a spate of finds over the past few years.
As an example, a larger discovery sample is necessary if the genetic architecture consists of many low frequent variants with small effect sizes, as opposed to a genetic architecture that has fewer frequent variants with relatively high effect sizes.
Within a larger discovery context, the current findings indicate that functional tumor vascular ligand-receptor targeting systems may be identified through direct combinatorial selection of peptide libraries in cancer patients.
It can be expected that a larger discovery set will select more true positives among those with a P value lower than 0.5 and therefore explain a higher percentage of the variance in the target sample.
Companies have made large discoveries this year.
Recent large discoveries there include BP's Kaskida field, estimated to hold three billion barrels of oil.
One of the largest discoveries of Viking treasure in Scotland has been unearthed in Dumfries and Galloway.
Colombia is Latin America's third-largest oil exporter but is in danger of becoming a net oil importer if new, large discoveries of crude are not made.
Dr Craig Cessford, from the university's department of archaeology and anthropology, said it was one of the largest discoveries of its kind in the UK.
The most contentious environmental issue within Alaska recently has been the fight over the proposed Pebble Mine, one of the world's largest discoveries of gold and copper.
