The Y Chromosome's Still-Uncharted Regions
The human genome has never actually been complete.
by Sarah Zhang
Mar 21, 2018
3 minutes
Fifteen years ago this April, scientists announced that the human genome sequence was complete. I regret to inform you this is not true.
If you have been misled, it is because many scientists themselves have long ignored the last unassembled regions of human DNA, which consist mostly of short, repeating sequences that do not look like genes. “These huge gaps still remain,” says , a genomics researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. That’s because
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