Researchers generate the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome (IMAGE)

NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute

Researchers generate the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome

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Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence.

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Ernesto del Aguila III, NHGRI.

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