It was like a map of New York missing all of Manhattan. The human reference genome finally has all its blank spots filled in, and seeing everything we missed the first time around is both repetitive—and enlightening.
An international team of researchers on Thursday released the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, nearly 20 years after the Human Genome Project produced its "first draft."
When scientists declared the Human Genome Project complete two decades ago, their announcement was a tad premature. A milestone achievement had certainly been reached, with researchers around the world gaining access to the DNA sequence of most protein-coding genes in the human genome. But even after 20 years of upgrades, eight percent of our genome still remained unsequenced and unstudied. Derided by some as "junk DNA" with no clear function, roughly 151 million base pairs of sequence data scattered... Читать дальше...
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Human chromosomes, colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM).
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The information is important for understanding genetic diseases, human diversity and evolution.