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Constructing First Version of Japanese Reference Genome
The Japanese now have their own reference genome thanks to researchers at Tohoku University who completed and released the first Japanese reference genome (JG1).
Their study was published in the journal Nature Communications on January 11, 2021.
“JG1 can aid with the clinical sequence analysis of Japanese individuals with rare diseases as it eliminates the genomic differences from the international reference genome,” said Jun Takayama, co-author of the study.
Back in 2003, the Human Genome Project, through a gargantuan global effort, cracked the code of life and mapped all the genes of the human genome. ....

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