Scientists sequence complete human genome for the 1st time - The Science Board
4/5/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Leah Sherwood, The Science Advisory Board assistant editor
by Leah Sherwood, The Science Advisory Board assistant editor
A team of nearly 100 scientists from the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium has for the first time unveiled the complete human genome. The findings were published on March 31 in the journal <em>Science.</em></a>
The paper presents a complete 3.055 billion-base pair sequence of a specific human genome, T2T-CHM13, adding 400 million letters to the previously sequenced DNA and correcting several errors in it. … [+2470 chars]
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