Most detailed human genome sequence yet reveals our hidden variation

By Michael Marshall

We’re inactive learning much astir the quality genome

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A new, much implicit mentation of the quality genome is already bearing effect aft being released 2 months ago. It has revealed tremendous amounts of familial saltation betwixt radical that could not antecedently beryllium detected – saltation that whitethorn underlie diseases.

“There were variants that were hiding successful plain sight,” says Megan Dennis of the University of California, Davis.

Other studies suggest the caller genome volition yet uncover the functions of seemingly useless “junk DNA”. Because this DNA is repetitive, it has proved hard …