Toward the Human Pan Genome with Adam Phillippy, NHGRI
- Author
- Theral Timpson
- Published
- Thu 23 May 2019
- Episode Link
- https://www.mendelspod.com/p/toward-the-human-pan-genome-with-7b8
Storylines repeat in genome science every decade or so. The human genome is complete. No. Now it's complete. Or, in the 90's, it was first announced that the first chromosome was sequenced. We have the same story for you today--breaking news from a paper that has not even been published yet: the first “complete” assembly of a human chromosome, end to end, telomere to telomere.
So what’s going on?
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