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Solving for Y: Research team completes long-anticipated genome sequencing of Y chromosome

by Editor August 27, 2023, 2:58 pm 1.8k Views

Researchers have filled in the final pieces of the puzzle for mapping a complete Y chromosome in humans. Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST

Twenty years ago, when researchers from the Human Genome Project

that they had completed the first-ever sequence of an entire set of human DNA, the discovery was heralded as comparable to “splitting the atom…

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