Adapted from a news release by Robert Sanders When scientists announced the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003, they were fudging a bit. In fact, nearly 20 years later, about 8% of the genome has never been fully sequenced, largely because it consists of highly repetitive chunks of DNA that are hard to align with the rest. But a three-year-old consortium has finally filled in that remaining DNA, providing the first complete, gapless genome sequence for scientists and physicians to refer to. The newly completed genome, dubbed T2T-CHM13, represents a major upgrade from the current reference genome, called
First Telomere to Telomere Human Genome Reveals Secrets of Centromere
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Scientists Finally Finish The Quest For A Gapless Human Genome
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After nearly 20 years, scientists at the Telomere-to-Telomere consortium, assisted by UC Berkeley scientists, have completed the Human Genome Project.